Amherst Latest to Rescind Cosby Degree
Amherst College is the latest of nine total colleges to rescind an honorary degree from Bill Cosby. The Amherst Board of Trustees voted Saturday to revoke the degree awarded in 1999."The board believes...
View ArticleColleges Embrace Pell Grant Expansion for Prisoners
More than 200 colleges and universities have said they’re interested in joining the Obama administration’s pilot program that will provide Pell Grants to incarcerated students, an official said...
View ArticleOhio State Adopts Tiered Health Care Benefit Premiums
Ohio State University is moving to a tiered contribution health care plan next year, The Columbus Dispatch reported. The university spends $300 million per year on faculty and staff health care...
View ArticleA Call for More Research on Campus Shootings
Eighteen research centers focused on studying higher education have issued a joint call for more government and private support for research on campus shootings and violence. "Despite the alarming...
View ArticleProfessor Who Killed 3 Colleagues in 2010 Apologizes
Amy Bishop, a former biology professor at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, has for the first time apologized for in 2010 killing three of her then colleagues and injuring three others, NBC News...
View ArticleTexas Releases Free Online Courses for High Schoolers
The University of Texas System has released a set of free online courses intended to help high school students prepare for careers in STEM fields and the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) tests....
View ArticleCourt: East Stroudsburg U Must Reinstate Professor Denied Tenure
East Stroudsburg University must uphold an arbitrator’s decision that it reinstate and reimburse for lost wages a professor denied tenure by the university president, according to a Pennsylvania...
View ArticleChancellor: Alaska-Fairbanks 'Failed' in Sex Assault Cases
The University of Alaska at Fairbanks "failed to follow [its] student discipline policies" in cases of campus sexual assault, the university's interim chancellor wrote in an open letter Tuesday."Like...
View ArticleIndiana Expels Student Who Attacked Muslim Woman
Indiana University at Bloomington has expelled Triceten D. Bickford, a sophomore who has been charged with physically attacking a Muslim woman and trying to remove her head scarf, The Indianapolis Star...
View ArticleCollege of DuPage Fires President
The board of the College of DuPage, a community college outside Chicago, voted Tuesday evening to fire Robert Breuder as president, The Chicago Tribune reported. Breuder was already on leave, but the...
View ArticleReprimanded for Assigning Affordable Textbooks?
A faculty member at California State University at Fullerton is fighting back after he was reprimanded for assigning affordable textbooks in a math course, The Orange County Registerreported. Alain...
View ArticleFormer Recruit: Louisville Visit Was Like 'Strip Club'
For years, University of Louisville basketball recruits attended parties at a campus residence hall that included nude dancers and paid sex, five former and prospective players told ESPN, lending...
View ArticleTarleton State Professor's Bizarre Resignation
Tarleton State University, in Stephenville, Texas, says that it followed proper procedures in the events leading up to the resignation of Jeff William Justice, a former assistant professor of social...
View ArticleStudy Qualifies Finding on Gender in Faculty Hiring
A controversial study this year found that, other factors being equal, faculty members seeking new colleagues in science and technology fields prefer female candidates over male candidates. But the...
View ArticleAnalysis Finds Colleges Do Teach Critical Thinking
A new meta-analysis, in which numerous relevant studies are reviewed and summarized together, has found that colleges do succeed at teaching critical thinking. Christopher R. Huber and Nathan R....
View ArticleReport on Competencies Sought by Employers
A report last month from the Committee on Economic Development examined which competencies employers find essential in the workers they want to hire, as well as which competencies are in short supply....
View ArticleFired DuPage President Sues College
As many predicted he would, Robert Breuder sued the College of DuPage less than a day after it formally fired him, The Chicago Tribune reported. The board cited financial mismanagement, among other...
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U of Kentucky Asserts Trademark Right to 'Kentucky'
The University of Kentucky is asking a small distillery, Kentucky Mist Moonshine, to stop using the word "Kentucky" on T-shirts and other materials, saying that the word is covered by a university...
View ArticleCarson Renews Call to Monitor Colleges for Bias
Ben Carson, among the leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, on Wednesday renewed his call for federal monitoring of colleges' potential political bias. Appearing on Glenn...
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A Message for Those Who Mock English Majors
Fordham University's English department is winning rave reviews on social media for its take on the recent elections that will make Justin Trudeau the next prime minister of Canada. Among American...
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