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Proposed Funding Increases for California Colleges and Students
California Governor Jerry Brown on Monday proposed $1 billion in new funding for the state's public institutions, an increase of 3.4 percent. (Roughly $590 million of that amount would come from the...
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Tennessee Chancellor Resigns Over Governor's Restructuring Plan
John Morgan, chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents, is resigning a year earlier than planned in opposition to Governor Bill Haslam's plan to change the governance structure of the regents...
View ArticleConcerns Raised About Turkish Law on Private Universities
Middle East Studies scholars are concerned about a new Turkish law that grants the Higher Education Council (YOK, by its Turkish acronym) authority to close private universities if their administrators...
View ArticleMizzou Panel Calls for Better Pay for Grad Students
A University of Missouri at Columbia task force is recommending better pay for graduate assistants, increased access to housing and child care for graduate students, and more shared governance, along...
View ArticleLSU Professor Arrested on Dozens of Fraud Charges
Louisiana authorities have arrested Todd Finley Shupe, director of Louisiana State University's Wood Durability Lab, and charged him with 98 counts of fraud and misappropriation of funds. Shupe is...
View ArticleCuomo Tries Again on Higher Education in Prisons
Republican legislators two years ago blocked New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, from an initiative to expand higher education opportunities in the state's prisons. On Sunday, Cuomo was back...
View ArticleTexas Tech President Resigns After Short Tenure
Duane Nellis announced Friday that he is resigning as president of Texas Tech University, after less than three years in office, to join the faculty there. The Texas Tribune noted that Nellis has...
View ArticleFemale Economists Advised to Avoid Group Work
Could lack of credit for co-written papers explain the underrepresentation of women in economics? New research by Heather Sarsons, a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Harvard University, detailed in The...
View ArticleToo Many Concussions to Play? Just Transfer
An article in STAT explores a new pattern in college football at a time of growing concern about concussions. Some colleges declare football players ineligible based on the number and/or severity of...
View ArticleBig Salaries for Athletic Conference Commissioners
Commissioners of top athletic conferences are seeing increasing paychecks, The Washington Post reported. The Post analyzed commissioner pay in the Power Five conferences: the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten,...
View ArticleBill Focuses on Wealthy Colleges' Endowment Income
U.S. Representative Tom Reed, a New York Republican who has been critical of the financial policies of colleges and universities with large endowments, has drafted legislation to act on his concerns....
View ArticleBREAKING: Apollo Considers Change in Ownership
Apollo Education Group’s board announced today that the company is exploring a potential change in control of the company. Apollo is the parent company of the University of Phoenix.“The board believes...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Innovation
Today on the Academic Minute, Robert Edgell, professor of technology management at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, explains that not all companies engaged in innovation have our...
View ArticleFirst Chocolate Milk/Concussion Debate of 2016
A University of Maryland press release claiming that a study found that a particular brand of chocolate milk can help heal brain concussions is attracting criticism for lack of evidence to substantiate...
View ArticleSchwarzman Scholars Program Names Inaugural Class
The Schwarzman Scholars program, which provides full funding for students to pursue a master’s degree at China's Tsinghua University, has named its inaugural class of students. The 111 students were...
View ArticleHobsons to Buy Analytics Project
Hobsons, a student-success-oriented company, will buy the Predictive Analytics Reporting (PAR) Framework, a nonprofit learning-analytics project that last year was spun off from the Western Interstate...
View ArticleWisconsin Governor Offers Plan on College Costs
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced a series of college affordability proposals for the state on Monday.The proposals include legislation that would eliminate caps on tax deductions for student...
View ArticleIn Reversal, GW Is Latest to Rescind Cosby Degree
In an about-face, George Washington University announced Monday that it would rescind the honorary degree it awarded Bill Cosby in 1997, joining more than a score of other institutions that have done...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rejects Student Loan Bankruptcy Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case on whether people declaring bankruptcy should have an easier time erasing student loan debt in the process, The Wall Street Journalreported. The...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Herbicides
Today on the Academic Minute, John Sivey, assistant professor of chemistry at Towson University, is looking into what happens to these chemicals after they are applied. Learn more about the Academic...
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