Scrutiny of Hobart's Handling of Sex Assault Case
A prominent article in The New York Times offers a highly critical look at how Hobart and William Smith Colleges handled a student's complaint that she was sexually assaulted by three football players....
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Rescue Karyotyping
In today's Academic Minute, Zev Williams, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, women’s health and genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, explains a process known as rescue...
View ArticleCampbellsville Seeks to Change Ties to Baptists
Campbellsville University is seeking to change its relationship with the Kentucky Baptist Convention, such that the university's board would pick its own members and could permit non-Baptists to serve,...
View ArticleBipartisan Bill Would Compel Broad Reporting of College Sports Finances
A pair of Congressional lawmakers, one Democrat and one Republican, introduced legislation Monday that would compel colleges (including private institutions), conferences and the National Collegiate...
View ArticleAudit Faults Federal Oversight of Student Debt Collectors
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Education has not properly overseen the companies it hires to collect defaulted federal student loan debt, according to an audit released Monday by the agency’s...
View ArticleAmid 'Negative Outlook' for Higher Ed, Moody's Finds Optimism
The financial picture for higher education remains negative, but “green shoots” of stability are emerging, according to a new industry outlook by Moody’s Investors Service.The usual concerns about...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Cryptographic Key Security
In today's Academic Minute, Artur Ekert, professor of quantum physics at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, discusses cryptography and efforts to improve security systems. Learn...
View ArticleDesire2Learn's Platform Becomes Brightspace
Desire2Learn's learning management system now has a name: Brightspace. The company had previously referred to the system as its "integrated learning platform." The name change, along with partnerships...
View ArticleGettysburg Punishes 27 Students in Wake of Drug Ring
Gettysburg College has expelled, suspended or otherwise punished 27 students who were found to have violated the Pennsylvania institution's policies stemming from a Philadelphia-area drug ring that...
View ArticleAppeals Court Grants New Trial to Professor in Iowa Bias Suit
Citing procedural reasons, a federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered a lower court to grant a new trial to a Teresa R. Wagner, who has waged a multiyear legal campaign to show that the University of...
View ArticleConfidence About Cybersecurity Lags in Academe
Academe may be less prepared than the finance, health care and manufacturing sectors to tackle cybersecurity breaches, according to a report from the network security provider ForeScout Technologies,...
View ArticleSemester at Sea Entered into Deal with Creditors to Sell Ship
The nonprofit institute that manages the well-known Semester at Sea study abroad program has signed a “standstill agreement” with a German bank to prevent action by its creditors after it missed...
View ArticleCongressional Panel Restores Humanities Funding
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday reversed a Republican proposal to cut funding to the National Endowment for the Humanities by more than 5 percent in the coming fiscal year. The full...
View ArticleAdjuncts Urge Labor Dept. Inquiry Into Working Conditions
More than 500 adjunct professors and their advocates have signed a petition calling for the U.S. Department of Labor to investigate their working conditions. The petition's authors, all current or...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Cocoa Power
In today's Academic Minute, John Finley, professor at Louisiana State University’s College of Agriculture, plugs the power of cocoa. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
View ArticleACE Studies on Faculty Roles and Business Models
The American Council on Education on Wednesday released two reports from its Presidential Innovation Lab. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded lab asks more than a dozen chief executives to...
View ArticlePearson's New Competency-Based Education Framework
This week Pearson introduced a new learning model for competency-based education. The company's seven-step "platform" seeks to help colleges prepare, build and sustain successful competency-based...
View ArticleStudy: Video Modules Could 'Destroy' Business Schools
Not even six weeks after M.B.A. programs were found to be safe from the threat of massive open online courses, a new report from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has bad news for...
View ArticleBlackboard Unveils Public Cloud Version, UI Redesign of Learn
Blackboard will soon offer a version of its learning management system, Learn, in the public cloud, the company announced on Wednesday during its annual conference in Las Vegas. During his morning...
View ArticleGordon's Accreditation Not at Risk Over Bias, Agency Says
Gordon College, whose policies barring sex outside of heterosexual marriage and request for an exemption from federal antidiscrimination requirements have drawn significant attention in recent weeks,...
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