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OECD ‘Education at a Glance’ Report Published
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has released its annual Education at a Glance report, an almanac of indicators on such topics as educational attainment, employment rates by...
View ArticleUniversity Email Accounts for Sale in China
An email address from a prestigious university and access to its library and other services can now be yours for the low, low price of 16 cents!But wait -- there’s more!The IT security company Palo...
View ArticleAAUP Opposes Trigger Warnings
Trigger warnings alerting students to potentially sensitive material have been polarizing on college campuses in recent years. Now the American Association of University Professors is weighing in. In a...
View ArticleAnthropology Group Creates Task Force on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The American Anthropological Association has created a task force to aid the organization’s executive board in considering ways in which the AAA might address issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian...
View ArticleCourt Backs Right of Oklahoma to Suspend Athlete
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has backed the right of the University of Oklahoma to impose a one-year suspension on a football player, Frank Shannon, who was accused of sexual assault, NewsOK reported. A...
View ArticleEpiscopal Leader at Yale, Under Fire, Resigns
Rev. Bruce M. Shipman has resigned as priest-in-charge of the Episcopal Church at Yale University, amid a controversy over a letter to the editor he wrote, The New Haven Register reported. The letter...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Wash Your Hands!
In today's Academic Minute, Don Schaffner, a professor of food science at Rutgers University, reveals how hand-washing is an inexact science. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
View ArticleStudents at Chinese University Told to Clean Dorms
Students at China’s Nanchang University are protesting a new policy requiring students to clean their own dormitories, including the bathrooms, the South China Morning Postreported. The university...
View ArticleU.S. Sues Kent State Over Denying Student's Use of Therapy Dog
The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit accusing Kent State University of violating the Fair Housing Act by its decision not to let a student have a dog in her dormitory to deal with anxiety...
View ArticleNew Payscale Salary Ranking Includes 2-Year Colleges
Rankings week continues with today's release of Payscale's annual salary report, which rates more than 1,000 colleges on the early career (through five years post-graduation) and mid-career (through 10...
View ArticleGAO Urges Pentagon to Better Evaluate Colleges
The U.S. Department of Defense has not done enough to guide the work of the contractor it used to evaluate the quality of colleges where service members enrolled using federal military education funds,...
View ArticleHarvard Launches Education Research Website
What's the point of research if it doesn't get into the hands of practitioners? That's the idea behind Useable Knowledge, the new education research website from the Harvard Graduate School of...
View ArticleBoard Rescinds Bonus for U. of Alaska President
The Board of Regents of the University of Alaska has rescinded a $320,000 bonus for President Patrick Gamble, The News Miner reported. Gamble requested that the board do so. With many in the state...
View ArticlePrinceton Weighs Ideas to Help Low-Income Students
Princeton University may soon take several steps to create a campus that is more inclusive to lower-income students, including featuring socioeconomic diversity in freshman orientation and diversity...
View ArticleCould Cal State System Admit Only Transfer Students?
Trustees of the California State University System warned Tuesday that, if the system doesn't get enough state funds, it could be forced to admit only transfer students, The Los Angles Times reported....
View ArticleFlorida State Faculty Continue to Oppose Politician as Next President
Faculty at Florida State University are continuing a months-long struggle against a well-connected politician who may become the university's next president. Faculty have long said John Thrasher, a...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Improving on Hawking’s Theories
In today's Academic Minute, Chris Adami, professor of physics and astronomy, and of microbiology and molecular genetics at Michigan State University, discusses his work to improve upon Stephen...
View ArticleFive College Consortium Creates Joint Library Annex
In a new level of collaboration, the Five College Consortium will soon begin construction of a 2.5-million-volume library annex that will provide shelving to supplement the capacities of the on-campus...
View Article38 Olivet Students Hospitalized
Thirty-eight students at Olivet College have been treated at local hospitals in the last two days for symptoms such as nausea, headaches and dizziness, The Lansing State Journal reported. The college...
View ArticleBlackboard Simplifies Smartphone App Licensing
Learning management system provider Blackboard has simplified how it licenses its smartphone app Mobile Learn. Colleges and universities can license the app for use across the institution, or they can...
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