Arrest of Student Leader Sparks Protests in India
Thousands of students and professors across India are protesting after the president of the student union at Jawaharlal Nehru University, in Delhi, was arrested Friday on sedition charges, The Guardian...
View ArticlePurdue Staffer Quits Amid Furor Over Online Comments
Jamie Newman quit his job as an accompanist for the dance program at Purdue University amid an uproar over comments he posted online about rape, The Lafayette Journal & Courierreported. Newman...
View ArticleMelissa Click Under New Scrutiny
Melissa Click, the controversial (and now suspended) assistant professor of communications at the University of Missouri at Columbia, is facing new scrutiny. She originally attracted attention after...
View Article4 Hospitalized, 2 Arrested Over LSD at Villanova
Four students at Villanova University were hospitalized over the weekend and two were arrested over the apparent use of LSD that caused overdose symptoms, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. One of...
View ArticleManitoba Ed School Keeps 45% of Spots for Diversity
The University of Manitoba has announced that its Senate has approved a plan to reserve 45 percent of the slots in its education bachelor's program for various diversity categories. The goal of the...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Unlocking the Mysterious Isle
Today on the Academic Minute, Tobin Porterfield, associate professor in the department of eBusiness and technology management at Towson University, explains how his students got to Cuba before the...
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Controversial Trustee Quits at N.Y.'s Mount Saint Mary
Andrew Bournos, a controversial new member of the Board of Trustees of Mount Saint Mary College, in Newburgh, N.Y., has resigned. Faculty members objected to Bournos’s social media profile, in...
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Students Occupy President's Office at Providence
A group of students, many of them black, occupied the president's office at Providence College for much of Tuesday. They said they would remain there until the college agrees to a list of demands...
View ArticleClinton Ally Challenges Sanders on Black Colleges
As Senator Bernie Sanders visits historically black colleges in the build-up to the South Carolina primary, an ally of Hillary Clinton has questioned whether the Sanders college affordability plan...
View ArticleAre Armed Marshals Really Collecting on Student Loans?
Twitter featured many posts in the last two days about a report from Texas that seven armed U.S. marshals showed up at the Houston residence a man with outstanding student debt. Many worried that the...
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Canadian University Rejects Statues of Prime Ministers
Wilfrid Laurier University is named for the man who was prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. But on Wednesday night the university's board rejected a plan it had previously approved to place...
View ArticleStudents Burn Artwork, Vehicles in Escalation of U Cape Town Protests
Student protestors at the University of Cape Town on Tuesday night burned artwork, set a shuttle bus and a research vehicle on fire, and petrol bombed the vice chancellor’s office, according to the...
View ArticleU of Iowa Sees Spike in Faculty Resignations
The University of Iowa saw a 36 percent jump in faculty resignations last year compared to a year earlier -- 66 resignations in 2013-14 versus 90 in 2014-15 -- according to a report from the Iowa Board...
View ArticleCongressman Talks Human Rights at NYU Shanghai
A U.S. congressman who has held hearings on China’s influence on U.S. universities and academic freedom issues raised by partnerships between American and Chinese universities gave a speech at New York...
View ArticleEven Kanye West Thinks Textbooks Are Too Expensive
Kanye West, in the midst of a wide-ranging Twitter rant about his new album, The Life of Pablo, being $53 million in debt and his preferred music streaming service, on Wednesday issued a call to lower...
View ArticleU of Texas at Austin Sets Rules for Handguns on Campus
The University of Texas at Austin set rules to allow handguns on campus and inside classrooms, the university announced Wednesday, though it opposes the law that requires the change.Under the new law,...
View ArticleNew America's Plan for Higher Education Financing
In most states, public funding for higher education has not recovered in the wake of the last recession. And odds are that state disinvestment will get worse after the next economic downturn, according...
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Geography, Race and Student Loan Delinquency
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth released Wednesday the second in a series of maps examining the interplay between geography and student debt. By breaking down student loan delinquency rates...
View ArticleStudy: When Colleges Fall in Rankings, Tuition Goes Up
When colleges move down in the rankings, they respond by raising tuition, according to a new study.Using data from U.S. News & World Report rankings between 2005 and 2012, researchers found that...
View ArticleIndiana U Will Review 18 Sexual Misconduct Cases
Indiana University at Bloomington plans to review 18 sexual misconduct cases on which a member of the hearing board was Jason Casares, an associate dean of students and deputy Title IX coordinator, who...
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