Arizona Court Upholds Law on Maricopa Board
The Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a new law that will create two at-large board seats for the Maricopa County Community College District, which has had only five board members, each...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Chimps Have Personality
In today's Academic Minute, Robert Latzman, a Georgia State university psychologist, delves into the individual personalities and neurobiology of chimpanzees. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
View ArticleNew Evidence of Mobile Phone Addiction in Students
Female college students spend an average of 10 hours a day on their cellphones, and male students spend about eight hours on them, according to a new study in The Journal of Behavioral Addictions. One...
View ArticleMontana State University-Northern Chancellor Resigns
The chancellor of Montana State University-Northern announced his resignation Thursday, according to the Havre Daily News.Chancellor James Limbaugh was facing faculty criticism, including a movement to...
View ArticleIllinois Philosophy Dept. Votes No Confidence in Chancellor
The philosophy department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has voted no confidence in Chancellor Phyllis Wise and other university leaders, The News-Gazette reported. The vote is based...
View ArticleAudit Criticizes UConn for Software Spending
A state audit has criticized the University of Connecticut for spending $902,000 on financial management software from Kuali that the institution didn't even use. Between 2009 and 2012, the university...
View ArticleEx-President of George Washington Under Fire for Sex Assault Comments
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, the loquacious president emeritus of George Washington University, is facing widespread criticism for his comments about how female students’ drinking might contribute to...
View ArticleChapel Hill Revises Policies on Sex Assault Charges
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Thursday announced revisions to its policies to handling sexual assaults, The News & Observer reported. Under the new policies, a trained...
View ArticleExecutive Search Firms Pair Up
Two higher ed headhunters are joining forces. Academic Search, which helps place higher ed leaders in permanent jobs, and the Registry for College and University Presidents, which helps colleges fill...
View ArticleFormer Football Player Sues NCAA Over Old Scholarship Rules
Already flanked by numerous lawsuits brought by former college athletes, the National Collegiate Athletic Association may soon face yet another antitrust class action.Last week, Durrell Chamorro, a...
View ArticleEducation Dept. Seeks Input on Income-Based Repayment
The U.S. Department of Education will gather a panel of higher education stakeholders early next year to write the regulations needed to carry out President Obama’s orders to expand his federal...
View ArticleConsumer Group Criticizes U.S. Student Debt Collection
The federal government’s system for collecting debt from students who have defaulted on their federal student loans is poorly overseen and rife with perverse incentives for debt collection companies...
View ArticleCompilation of Articles on Critical Thinking
Inside Higher Ed is today releasing a free compilation of essays -- in print-on-demand format -- on how colleges seek to promote and measure critical thinking by their students.This booklet is part of...
View ArticleU.S. Approval for Wisconsin Competency-Based Program
The U.S. Department of Education last week granted approval to a self-paced, competency-based program from two institutions in the University of Wisconsin System, the system announced Tuesday. The...
View ArticleNearly 4,000 Starbucks Employees Apply to Arizona State
Arizona State University is seeing the results of its partnership with Starbucks in the form of nearly 4,000 new applicants. The news was first reported by The Arizona Republic, which noted that the...
View ArticleCDC Issues Guidance for Colleges on Ebola
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued guidance for colleges and universities on how to respond to the spread of Ebola in West Africa. Among the recommendations: Calling off...
View ArticleUnusual Senior Project to Draw Attention to Sex Assaults
A senior visual arts major at Columbia University has created an unusual senior project to draw attention to the issue of sexual assaults, New York Magazine reported. Emma Sulkowicz, who says that the...
View ArticleMistreated Medical Students
About 20 percent of medical students report being mistreated during the clinical portions of their education, according to a new study by Michigan State University researchers. Public humiliation was...
View ArticleInstructor Shoots Self in Foot, in Classroom at Idaho State
Faculty members and administrators in Idaho have been protesting a new law permitting concealed carry on campus. On Tuesday, an instructor with a concealed carry permit accidentally shot himself in the...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Energy Drink Demographics
In today's Academic Minute, Lauri Byerly, associate professor of sports and health sciences at American Public University, examines whether the young adults to whom energy drinks are marketed are...
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