U.S. House Passes Job-Training Bill
A key federal job-training bill has been updated for the first time in more than a decade. The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA),...
View ArticleSpelman President, Campaign Concluded, to Step Down
Spelman College on Wednesday announced that Beverly Daniel Tatum, president since 2002, will retire in June. The announcement came the same day the college announced that it has completed a 10-year...
View ArticleCity Kills Contract With College Over Anti-Gay Stance
The CIty of Salem, Mass. has killed a contract under which Gordon College has operated the city's historic Old Town Hall, Boston.com reported. The city cited the Christian college's "behavioral...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Musical 'Anhedonia'
In today's Academic Minute, Josep Marco-Pallarés, a professor at the University of Barcelona, discusses the term he has coined, musical "anhedonia," for those who do not respond to music. Learn more...
View ArticleState Higher Ed Spending on the Rise in 2015
States are poised to provide 3.6 percent more in higher education operating support in 2015 than they did in 2014, an informal survey by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities...
View ArticleNew Draft Guidance on Conditional Admissions
The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) is releasing draft policy guidance on conditional admissions policies clarifying that international students must meet all admissions standards for a...
View ArticleU. of Texas System Board Chair Reproaches Factions
AUSTIN, Tex. -- The chairman of the University of Texas System Board of Regents said he was displeased with how some factions protested the attempted ouster of UT Austin President Bill Powers, whose...
View ArticleArizona State Professor Pleads Guilty to Resisting Arrest
Ersula Ore, an Arizona State University faculty member, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of resisting arrest, but several other charges against her were dropped, The Arizona Republic reported....
View Article60 Articles Retracted After Probe of 'Peer Review Ring'
The publisher SAGE has announced that its Journal of Vibration and Control has retracted 60 articles following an investigation that found an apparent "peer review ring" that used phony identities to...
View ArticleUnion Severs Ties to UNCF, Citing Koch Grant
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees is ending an internship and grant program for students at United Negro College Fund institutions, to protest the UNCF's acceptance of a...
View ArticleUSC and Scripps End Merger Talks
The University of Southern California and the Scripps Research Institute have abandoned talks about Scripps becoming part of USC, The Los Angeles Times reported. The end of the talks comes amid...
View ArticleAntonio Gramsci Was Not Conrad Hilton
Intellectuals in Italy are objecting to a plan of a hotel developer to use property that includes the one-time home of Antonio Gramsci to build an upscale hotel that would be named for him, The...
View ArticlePeking U. Criticized for Creating Elite Unit
Faculty members and students at Peking University are criticizing the creation of a new elite unit, which will offer a Rhodes Scholarship-style program for foreign students, The South China Morning...
View ArticleAudio: U. of Texas Battle and Senator's Survey
New on "This Week,"Inside Higher Ed's podcast on the events of the week: A discussion with Hunter Rawlings III, president of the Association of American Universities, on the push to oust Bill Powers as...
View ArticleFavorites for Texas Chancellorship Are Non-Academics
Both The Texas Monthly and The Dallas Morning News are reporting that two candidates have emerged as favorites as the University of Texas System Board of Regents seeks a system chancellor to succeed...
View ArticleScholarly Groups Urge Changes to Federal Ed Research Bill
Research organizations are criticizing legislation pending in Congress that would reauthorize the U.S. Department of Education's research arm, arguing that the measure contains provisions that would...
View ArticleCourt Rejects California AG's Request on Corinthian
A California court on Friday rejected a request by the state's attorney general, Kamala D. Harris, who had sought an injunction to require Corinthian Colleges to disclose more information to...
View ArticleUCLA Pays $500,000 to Settle Claim of Racial Profiling
The University of California at Los Angeles has agreed to pay $500,000 to settled complaints of use of excessive force and racial profiling against a black judge during a traffic stop, The Los Angles...
View ArticleWarnings About Debt Settlement Companies
Debt settlement companies offer, for a fee, to help those in debt lower their monthly payments, and some of the businesses have been criticized over the years as not really helping borrowers. The New...
View ArticleShould Presidents Pay Taxes on Their Houses?
A recent Internal Revenue Service audit of Ohio University has determined that President Roderick Davis should pay personal income taxes on the benefit of living in the presidential home, The Columbus...
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