Illinois Board Hears From Adjunct With Controversial Past
James Kilgore, who is on the verge of losing an adjunct position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, got the chance Wednesday to speak directly to the university's board about his...
View ArticleHomeless Adjunct Continues Hunger Strike After Hospital Visit
Mary-Faith Cerasoli, a New-York area adjunct professor of Spanish and Italian, visited the hospital Wednesday after a five-day hunger strike outside of Nassau Community College. Cerasoli, who taught at...
View ArticleOnline Grows at Two-Year Colleges but Success Lags
Online course enrollment at California's community colleges has grown rapidly during the last decade, according to a new report from the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan research...
View ArticleDean Fired for Disagreeing With Administrators
Robert Buckingham was fired as dean of the public health school -- and banned from campus -- at the University of Saskatchewan this week because he spoke out publicly against a controversial...
View ArticleStudy Finds Brain Changes in College Football Players
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds changes in the brains of college football players -- with and without a history of a concussion, Reuters reported. Compared to men...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Hip Hop Culture Identities
In today’s Academic Minute, Muhammad Khalifa, assistant professor of educational administration at Michigan State University, studies the role of hip hop in schools. Learn more about the Academic...
View ArticleNYU Subsidized Housing for Harvard Professor
New York University provides a subsidized apartment to Henry Louis Gates Jr. even though he teaches at Harvard University, not NYU, The New York Post reported. Gates told the Post that he has served as...
View ArticleTurkish Scholar Denied Right to Board U.S.-Bound Flight
The Middle East Studies Association’s Committee on Academic Freedom is protesting the refusal of authorities to allow a Turkish scholar of Kurdish history, İsmail Beşikçi, and his traveling companion...
View ArticleNortheastern U. Adjuncts Approve Union Bid
Northeastern University adjuncts are the latest to vote to form a union affiliated with Service Employees International Union, they announced Thursday. The union, with about 900 members, is SEIU's...
View ArticleState Authorization Initiative Adds Five Members
The National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements added five new members on Thursday: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Washington. The states, which join Indiana and North Dakota,...
View ArticleAt Wake Forest, Commencement Speaker Isn't Changing
It's been a season in which several high-profile individuals -- facing controversies -- have opted out of invitations they accepted to deliver commencement addresses. Wake Forest University on Thursday...
View ArticleSmith Professors Regret WIthdrawal of Commencement Speaker
Smith College lost its planned commencement speaker, Christine Lagarde, when she withdrew because of criticism of her selection by some who objected to the organization she leads, the International...
View ArticleU. of Saskatchewan Lets Fired Dean Keep Tenured Job
The University of Saskatchewan, facing widespread criticism for firing a dean who disagreed on the university's strategy, has announced that he can hold on to a tenured faculty job. Many academics were...
View ArticleProfessor Wins Promotion While in Jail
Connecticut's Board of Regents for Higher Education is "deeply dismayed" at the recent promotion of Ravi Shankar, an associate professor at Central Connecticut State University, to the rank of full...
View ArticleUniversities Get $60M in Grants for Science Education
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute Thursday awarded grants totaling $60 million over five years to 37 research universities to improve teaching and learning in science-based undergraduate courses. The...
View ArticleSenator Ups the Ante in Dispute With Higher Ed Group
Senator Claire McCaskill on Thursday stepped up pressure on a top higher education lobbying group to turn over copies of a presentation that advised colleges on how to respond to her survey on campus...
View ArticleNorthwestern Issues Report on One of Its Founder's Links to Massacre of...
Northwestern University on Thursday released an independently prepared report on one of its founders, John Evans, and his links to mistreatment of Native Americans when he was governor of the Colorado...
View ArticleNon-Tenure-Track Professor Will Lead USC Senate
Faculty members at the University of Southern California have elected Ginger Clark, associate professor of clinical education in the university's Rossier School of Education, as president-elect of the...
View ArticleUBC Graduation Social Media Campaign Backfires
The University of British Columbia this week invited students to celebrate graduation with the hashtag #UBCgrad, but amid pictures of cap-and-gown-clad students, one photo stood out. On a poster...
View ArticleGroup Will Represent Financial Interests of Ex-Athletes
As a key antitrust lawsuit over college athletes' rights to a share of the revenue generated off their commercial “likenesses” nears trial, an organization has emerged to represent the financial...
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