College Shares Zero-Textbook-Cost Courses
Northern Virginia Community College's zero-textbook-cost degree programs are going open source. The community college, with help from open-courseware provider Lumen Learning, on Monday made nine of its...
View ArticleClik here to view.
College Completion Rates Decline More Rapidly
Fewer students are earning a college credential within six years of first enrolling in college, according to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The nonprofit...
View ArticleProtests at Still More Campuses
Protests over race and diversity continued to spread Monday, with actions at numerous campuses:At Occidental College, students took over parts of an administration building to demand the creation of a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Word of the Year From Oxford Dictionaries Isn't a Word
Oxford Dictionaries, part of Oxford University Press, on Monday announced its annual Word of the Year. For 2015, it's not a word, but rather an emoji -- in this case the emoji called “Face With Tears...
View ArticleCalifornia Community Colleges Seek New Accreditor
The Board of Governors of California's community college system voted Monday to replace the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges as the accreditor for the system's colleges, The San...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: E. coli
Today on the Academic Minute, Blaine Pfeifer, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo, explains why we should look beyond E. coli's bad...
View ArticleClik here to view.
'Food for Fines' at Elizabethtown
Elizabethtown College is offering a creative way to get out of paying back dreaded campus parking tickets. Through Food for Fines, 10 nonperishable items will erase a $20 ticket; 20 items will pay a...
View ArticleFlorida State President Criticizes 'Hunting Ground'
The documentary TheHunting Ground"contains major distortions and glaring omissions," John Thrasher, Florida State University's president, said in a statement Monday, comparing the film to Rolling...
View ArticleGuilford Criticized for Helping Refugees
Guilford College professors have been promoting an Every Campus a Refuge program in which campuses such as Guilford will help refugees as they relocate to the United States. But North Carolina...
View ArticleYale President Vows New Efforts to Promote Diversity
Yale President Peter Salovey announced Tuesday that the university will undertake a series of new efforts to promote an inclusive environment on campus. Among the steps he outlined: adding faculty...
View ArticleWashington College Closed Amid Search for Armed Student
Washington College has remained closed this week while state and federal law enforcement agencies search for a missing student who may be armed. Authorities have filed an arrest warrant for the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
French Geography Professor Was Among Paris Victims
Matthieu Giroud (right), a geographer who was associate professor at Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, was among those killed in Friday night's terrorist attacks in Paris. His research focused on...
View ArticleAllegations Lead Louisville to Suspend Official
The University of Louisville has suspended Deborah Dietzler as director of alumni affairs after allegations surfaced that, in a similar position at the University of Georgia, she used taxpayer funds to...
View ArticleU of Montana Will Cut 201 Positions
The University of Montana on Tuesday announced plans to cut 201 full-time positions -- 52 of them faculty slots -- to deal with enrollment declines, NBC News Montana reported. Some positions may be...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Migratory Patterns
Today on the Academic Minute: Ken Tankersley, associate professor of anthropology and geology at the University of Cincinnati, discusses his work discovering ancient specimens. Learn more about the...
View ArticleWhite House Meeting for College Leaders on Climate Change
The White House and the U.S. Department of State are hosting college administrators and student leaders today for a meeting on climate change, according to the Association for the Advancement of...
View ArticleNIH to Cease Use of Chimpanzees in Research
More than two years after the National Institutes of Health said it would sharply reduce the role of chimpanzees in its research efforts, the biomedical research agency went further Wednesday,...
View ArticleMills Students, Faculty Protest Proposed Cuts
Students and faculty members of Mills College rallied on campus Wednesday in protest of $250,000 in proposed cuts to the arts, language, ethic studies and public policy programs. The college is...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Denies Taking FBI Money
Carnegie Mellon University on Wednesday defended itself from an assertion by the Tor Project that the university received “at least $1 million” from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to unmask...
View ArticleCollege Staying Closed Through Thanksgiving
Washington College, in Maryland, will remain closed through Thanksgiving, the institution announced Wednesday. Law enforcement officials and others are worried about a missing student believed to be...
View Article