Many Undergrads Remain Ineligible for Tax Breaks, Study Finds
Despite the expansion of higher education tax benefits in recent years, a large share of undergraduate students still are not eligible to receive them, according to a new study by the New America think...
View ArticleLand-Grant Backing for Protest of Elsevier Pricing
Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, issued a statement Monday expressing strong support for the move of the six editors and 31 editorial board members...
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Protest Greets Iowa President on His First Day
About 200 students and faculty members greeted J. Bruce Harreld with a protest on his first full day as president of the University of Iowa, The Gazette reported. Many on campus have charged that the...
View ArticleStudent Detained Over Threat to Fresno State
A student at California State University at Fresno was taken into custody Monday after authorities traced an online threat to his phone, The Los Angeles Times reported. The threat, on Yik Yak, was...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Onomatopoeia
Today on the Academic Minute, Lynn Perry, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Miami, explores if the relationship of the sound of words and their meanings goes farther than we think....
View ArticleTurkish Professor Indicted for Exam Question
Middle East studies scholars are rallying to the cause of a Turkish professor who is being prosecuted for disseminating “terrorist propaganda” and praising “crime and criminals” based on an exam...
View ArticleNew Lumina Papers on Performance-Based Funding
The Lumina Foundation this week released the first four of 13 papers it plans to roll out in coming months on performance-based funding in higher education. At least 35 states are either developing or...
View ArticleFederal Loan Servicers Misled Borrowers, CFPB Says
Companies hired by the U.S. Department of Education to collect federal student loan payments made “deceptive” statements to borrowers, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.The consumer...
View ArticleBroad Coalition's Goals for the Higher Education Act
A coalition of 12 organizations, including New America, the Business Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Center for Law and Social Policy, on Wednesday released a set of shared principles...
View ArticleCourt: Harris-Stowe State U Owes $4.85 Million to White Former Professor
Harris-Stowe State University must pay a former full-time education instructor $4.85 million in damages related to her racial bias claims, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. A St. Louis circuit...
View ArticleYale to Spend $50M on Faculty Diversity Effort
Yale University will spend $50 million over five years to enhance the diversity of its faculty, its leaders announced Tuesday. About half of the money will be used to match individual departments'...
View ArticleAnother YikYak Threat Leads to Student Arrest
A student whose alleged social media threat to shoot up California State University's Fresno campus on Monday was blowing off steam and did not intend to carry out the plan -- but authorities plan to...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Musical Omnivores
Today on the Academic Minute, Paul Elvers, research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, explores how social origins don't always predict musical taste. Learn more about the...
View ArticleNCAA: 86 Percent of Division I Athletes Graduate
College athletes are graduating at record rates, according to the National Collegiate Athletic Association's metric known as the Graduation Success Rate. Eighty-six percent of Division I athletes who...
View Article4 Stabbed at U California Merced; Suspect Killed
Four people were stabbed at the University of California at Merced Wednesday morning. The victims were two students, one staff member and a contractor. None of their injuries are life threatening....
View ArticleNew Panel to Examine Future of Undergraduate Education
A new commission promises to assess the future of undergraduate education based on research and data, rather than the anecdotes and hyperbole that undergird many analyses of higher education these...
View ArticleVoters Back a College Scholarship Funded by Pot
Voters in Colorado's Pueblo County on Tuesday approved the creation of a college scholarship that will be supported through a tax on marijuana sales, The Denver Postreported. The tax is expected to...
View ArticleCalifornia State U Faculty Authorizes Possible Strike
The union representing professors at the California State University System have voted to authorize a strike if faculty and administrative leaders cannot reach agreement on a pay raise. The tactic is...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Women in Comics and Medical Texts
Today on the Academic Minute, Kathleen Alves, associate professor of English at Queensborough Community College, explains how these very different forms of literature came to prominence at the same...
View ArticleJournalists Protest Gag Order by U of Hong Kong
Journalists are protesting a court order obtained by the University of Hong Kong barring Hong Kong Commercial Broadcasting Company and other media from publishing information about the university’s...
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