Adjuncts at U. of St. Thomas Reject Union
Adjuncts at the University of St. Thomas have voted by a large margin, 136 to 84, to reject a unionization bid by the Service Employees International Union, The Star Tribune reported. The campaign at...
View Article$650 Million Gift for Mental Health Research
The Broad Institute, a biomedical research center affiliated with Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is today announcing a $650 million gift to support research on mental...
View Article34-Campus, For-Profit Anthem Education May Close
Anthem Education, a 34-campus for-profit chain, appears to be on the verge of shutting down campuses, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Anthem has notified state officials of layoffs coming soon in...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Studying Spider Fossils
In today's Academic Minute, Paul Selden, professor of invertebrate paleontology at the University of Kansas, discusses his survey of spider fossils, through which he is helping piece together ancient...
View ArticleUnizin Names Founding CEO
The digital learning consortium Unizin has named Amin Qazi as its founding CEO. In a statement, Unizin co-founder James Hilton, dean of libraries at the University of Michigan, said, “The academy is at...
View ArticleBritish Universities Less Likely to Admit Minority Applicants
British universities are less likely to admit ethnic minority applicants than they are white applicants, even when controlling for academic record, social background and other factors, Times Higher...
View ArticleTop Football Recruits on Unions, Pay and Concussions
ESPN released the results of a poll of the 300 top high school football recruits this year (of which more than 150 responded). Among the results: 60 percent believe college athletes should be able to...
View ArticleInterim Leader Named Next President of Howard U.
The board of Howard University has tapped the interim president, Wayne A.I. Frederick, to take on the position on a permanent basis. Frederick holds three degrees from Howard. He was 16 when he first...
View ArticleMinnesota Sues 2 For-Profit Colleges
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson on Tuesday announced lawsuits against the Minnesota School of Business and Globe University, charging that the for-profit institutions were duping students into...
View ArticleMore Out-of-State Students at U. of California
Enrollment of out-of-state students continues to rise, and provoke debate, at University of California campuses. The Los Angeles Times reported that the percentage of new freshmen from outside...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Parental Involvement in Early Education
In today's Academic Minute, Keith Robinson, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, examines the educational benefits that occur when parents directly assist their...
View ArticleSenator Plagiarized His Master's Thesis
Senator John Walsh, a Montana Democrat, plagiarized significant portions of the thesis that won him a master's degree at the U.S. Army War College, The New York Times reported. The article said that...
View ArticleCalifornia's New 'Sip and Spit' Law
A new California law will allow college students under the legal drinking age of 21 to drink alcohol in class as long as they are enrolled in a beer brewing or wine-making course, The San Francisco...
View ArticleAntioch U. Seattle Adjuncts Vote to Unionize
Non-tenure-track faculty members at Antioch University’s Seattle campus voted overwhelmingly in favor of forming a union affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, they announced...
View ArticleOwner of California For-Profits Files for Bankruptcy
BioHealth College Inc., which owns for-profit colleges in four cities in California, has filed for bankruptcy, The San Jose Mercury News reported. While the colleges are operating, the U.S. Education...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Improved Autopilot Technology
In today's Academic Minute, Carlos Varela, an associate professor of computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, asks why we aren't adding more intelligence to autopilot systems. Learn more...
View ArticleGerman University Will Switch Master's Degrees to English
Technical University, in Munich, is planning to switch most master's degrees to English by 2020, The Local reported. Currently about one-third of such programs are in English. The university's...
View ArticleDatabase Outages Lead to Visa Processing Delays
A U.S. Department of State database has been experiencing “significant performance issues, including outages" since last Saturday, resulting in delays for applicants for U.S. passports and visas, the...
View ArticleBill Gates on Higher Ed / Outsourced Adjuncts: This Week on 'This Week @...
"This Week," Inside Higher Ed's weekly audio program, this week features debate about whether Bill Gates is moderating his views on higher education and analysis of a cadre of colleges outsourcing...
View ArticleProfessor Charged With Filming Students in Bathroom
Mark Landis, who until recently taught accounting at San Francisco State University and the University of San Francisco, has been charged with 15 counts of misdemeanor invasion of privacy for allegedly...
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