Congressional Hearing on Campus Political Activity
Students and several experts testified in front of Congress Wednesday that many private, nonprofit universities are overly restrictive of campus political speech out of misplaced fear that their...
View ArticleSt. Cloud State Cuts 6 Sports
In an attempt to trim its athletic department's budget, St. Cloud State University, in Minnesota, will eliminate six of its athletic programs and reduce the size of its football roster, the university...
View Article9 Republicans Opposed Honor for Maya Angelou
Congress typically approves measures to name local post offices after people connected to a given locality. But as The Washington Postnoted, nine House Republicans voted against a measure to name a...
View Article11 Research U's Improve Low-Income Graduation Rates
The University Innovation Alliance this week announced a three-percentage-point collective increase in the proportion of degrees earned by low-income students at its 11 research university members. The...
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Agreement on Climate Change Ends Long Sit-In at MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a student protest group have reached an agreement that will end a sit-in that has been going on in the administration building since October. The students...
View ArticlePomona President Will Step Down Next Year
David W. Oxtoby announced this week that he will step down as president of Pomona College next year. Oxtoby has been president since 2003. In his announcement to the campus, Oxtoby stressed that he...
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University Starts Scholarships Based on Tweets
Minnesota State University at Moorhead has announced an unusual scholarship program. Four $2,500 scholarships and two $1,000 scholarships will be awarded (on top of other aid for which students are...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Cat Videos
Today on the Academic Minute, Jessica Gall Myrick, associate professor of media at Indiana University, explores why cat videos are so popular. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
View ArticleRemember Your SAT Words? Try This Crossword Puzzle
The College Board is honoring the death of SAT words -- infamously esoteric words that high school students memorize for the test and forget soon after -- with a special crossword puzzle in The New...
View ArticleGrants for Advocacy on Financial Aid Policy
HCM Strategists, a public policy and advocacy firm, this week announced it will award $1 million in short-term grants aimed at helping nonprofit organizations and higher education systems develop...
View ArticleStudent's Knife Alarms Some at Cal State Long Beach
California State University at Long Beach on Thursday said that it has taken seriously an incident in which a faculty member saw a student with a small knife, in class, and asked him to leave and...
View ArticleOpenStax, College Stores Partner for Textbook Customization
OpenStax, the Rice University-backed publisher, is partnering with textbook distributor NACSCORP to get its free textbooks into the hands of more students. The two organizations will offer faculty...
View ArticleProfessor Who Wore Hijab Accepts Fellowship at Virginia
Larycia Hawkins, who left the faculty of Wheaton College of Illinois over a controversy on her statements on God, has accepted a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture of the...
View ArticleAdjuncts Vote to Unionize at St. Charles CC
Adjunct faulty members at St. Charles Community College, in Missouri, voted Thursday to unionize and to be represented by Service Employees International Union, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported....
View ArticleMore Debate Over Trump's 'University'
Thursday night's Republican presidential debate featured more exchanges over Trump University, which was never a university, but which offered unaccredited training programs in real estate and...
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BREAKING: Harvard Law Seeks to Change Seal
Martha Minow, dean of the Harvard University law school, has endorsed the recommendations of a panel she appointed to change the law school's seal, a major demand of minority students and others. The...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Biodegradable Parts, Complex Fractures
Today on the Academic Minute, Prashant Kumta, professor of engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, details a new material that could help the body heal without the use of steel screws or plates....
View ArticleIndiana U Press Enters Adult Coloring Book Market
In case you missed this trend (we'll admit we did), adult coloring books are a thing. (See here and here.) Now Indiana University Press is entering the market with a "Color Your Campus" series with...
View ArticleNLRB: ESL Instructors at Loyola Chicago May Unionize
A regional office of the National Labor Relations Board ruled last week that English as a second language instructors at Loyola University Chicago may vote on whether to unionize. Loyola challenged the...
View ArticleLaw Students Face More Debt and More Stress
Law students are borrowing more and feeling more stress about that borrowing, according to the latest edition of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement, released today. Among the key findings:The...
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