Chicago Police Shoot and Kill Northern Illinois Student
Quintonio Legrier, 19, an engineering student at Northern Illinois University, was shot and killed early Saturday morning by Chicago police officers. They were responding to a call from his family...
View ArticleSpending by CC of San Francisco Officials Questioned
Administrators at City College of San Francisco, where cuts to academic programs remain controversial, have been spending significant sums on travel and other expenses without documentation about the...
View ArticleMLA Condemns Bias Against Those Who Teach About Islam
The Modern Language Association's Executive Council has issued a statement criticizing growing anti-Muslim bias as well as bias against those who teach about Islam. The statement says: "After the...
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Typo Mars U of South Dakota Billboard
Web journalists can fix typos quickly. It's much more difficult and expensive to fix a typo on a billboard, as the University of South Dakota has discovered. An apostrophe where it doesn't belong has...
View ArticleDeath and Science
The deaths of leading academic scientists may contribute in an unexpected way to the advancement of their fields, according to a study released Tuesday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The...
View ArticleAcademic Minute Annual Awards
The following podcasts have won the Academic Minute's awards for 2015 (and, belatedly, for 2014). Congratulations to:Mitchell Grayson of the Medical College of Wisconsin for winning our 2015 Presidents...
View ArticleLet's Break Internet With List of Banished Words
Every New Year's Eve, Lake Superior State University releases a list for the following year of words and phrases that need to be eliminated. People nominate words all year long. For 2016, the List of...
View ArticleTiffin President Quits After 6 Months in Office
Curtis B. Charles has resigned as president of Tiffin University, effective Friday. Charles has been president for only six months. A university press release said that his departure was "a result of a...
View ArticleProfessor Removed From Course Over Vulgarity Waiver
Laurentian University, in Canada, has removed professor Michael Persinger, a neuroscientist, from teaching an introductory psychology course because of a waiver he asks students to sign over his use of...
View ArticleFlorida Atlantic Fires Sandy Hook Denier
Florida Atlantic University announced Tuesday that it has completed the process of firing James Tracy, an associate professor of communication known as a denier of the Sandy Hook mass shooting and...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Clothing and Behavior
Today on the Academic Minute, Michael Kraus, assistant professor of organizational behavior at Yale University, examines how what you wear can affect your job performance and social status. Learn more...
View ArticleSome Counselors Unable to Access PSAT Scores
Many high school students will learn today how they did on the PSAT, and their high school counselors were in theory supposed to get information Wednesday on the scores of their students, as well as...
View ArticleBarber-Scotia Will Close for Spring Semester
Barber-Scotia College, a historically black college in North Carolina that has had a very small enrollment since losing accreditation more than a decade ago, will not operate during the spring...
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Professor Answers Wheaton's Charges Against Her
Larycia Hawkins, whom Wheaton College in Illinois is trying to fire from its political science faculty, on Wednesday held a press conference to criticize the college. Hawkins attracted attention in...
View ArticleAGB to Begin Consulting Colleges on Financial Health
An organization that works with college and university governing boards and conducts presidential and executive searches is now branching out and beginning a consultancy for what is perhaps the most...
View ArticleAnother Record Year for Ed-Tech Investments
Ed-tech companies serving higher education in 2015 attracted investments totaling $658.3 million, according to a white paper released this week by market research firm Ambient Insight. Higher education...
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How States Fare in Their Support of Public Higher Ed
Young Invincibles released report cards today that grade states on their support of public higher education. The results weren't great, and only one state -- Wyoming, the least populated state in the...
View ArticleTwo Georgia Colleges Merge
Georgia State University, a four-year university with an urban campus in Atlanta, and Georgia Perimeter College, a community college in the city's suburbs, are officially merged.The merged institution...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Structure of Cities
Today on the Academic Minute, Martin Krieger, professor of planning at the University of Southern California, delves into how modern physics helps define the characteristics of our cities. Learn more...
View ArticleCartoon Caption Contest Has a 3-Time Winner
Our latest Cartoon Caption Contest is ready for your creative submissions -- click here to take your best shot.You might take your inspiration from Joe Valades, who with his winning submission for our...
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