Economist Cancels Illinois Lecture Due to Salaita Decision
Steve Cicala, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago, says he has canceled the lecture he was scheduled to deliver to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's College...
View ArticleSaint Rose Adjuncts Vote "Yes" on Union
Adjuncts at the College of Saint Rose, in Albany, N.Y., have voted to form a union affiliated with the Service Employees International Union. The union has organized some 21,000 adjuncts across the...
View ArticleStudent Advocacy Group Calls for Changes to Work-Study
The Federal Work-Study Program needs to be revamped to help serve more low-income students, says a report released Monday by Young Invincibles, a student advocacy group.The group calls on Congress to...
View ArticleShowdown Today Over Next Florida State President
The search committee for the next president of Florida State University on Monday rejected the advice of faculty and student leaders and included a state senator without experience leading a college or...
View ArticleChina Gives Life Sentence to Professor
A Chinese court has sentenced a university professor found guilty of "separatism" to life in prison, The New York Times reported. The Times said that the sentence is the most severe in recent years to...
View ArticleStanford Agreed Not to Use Google Funds to Study Privacy
Stanford University researchers have received considerable support from Google, but the university also agreed that it would not use such funds for privacy research at its Center for Internet and...
View ArticleFraternity Suspended for Offensive Banner, Sprinkler
Despite the increased public discussion of sexual assault, some fraternities continue activities that raise questions about their understanding of the issue. Phi Delta Theta has suspended its chapter...
View ArticleMercyhurst Goes Test-Optional in Admissions
Mercyhurst University, in Pennsylvania, has announced that it is ending the requirement that applicants submit SAT or ACT scores. “Mercyhurst does not believe in reducing students to numbers and has...
View Article15.4% Return on Harvard's Endowment
Harvard University's endowment -- the nation's largest -- was up 15.4 percent in fiscal 2014. Those gains raised the value of the endowment to $36.4 billion. The endowment has distributed $11.6 billion...
View ArticleThe Role of HBCUs in Producing STEM Doctorate Holders
Black men and women who received science and technology doctorates from historically black colleges and universities are more likely than their peers who earned their Ph.D.s at predominantly white...
View ArticleClemson U. Suspends All Fraternity Activity Following Student Death
The day after a sophomore fraternity member fell from a bridge to his death, officials at Clemson University suspended all social and new-member initiation activities at its 24 fraternities. The...
View ArticleCooking Up Adjunct Activism
Adjuncts at Front Range Community College in Colorado are cooking up some activism – recipes and all – with their new project, “The Adjunct Cookbook.” The book contains “food bank-friendly concoctions”...
View ArticleBlackboard Acquires Videoconferencing Software Provider
Blackboard's string of acquisitions continued on Thursday, as the company announced it had acquired Requestec, which provides in-browser communication and collaboration technology. A Blackboard...
View ArticleInstructure Piloting Learning Repository for Canvas
Canvas already has its own App Center, and faculty members and designers who use the learning management system will soon have their own repository for course content. Canvas Commons, announced...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Sleep Disruption
In today's Academic Minute, Hawley Montgomery-Downs, a psychologist at West Virginia University, discusses how fragmented sleep patterns present serious risks. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
View ArticleCourt Agrees to Expedite Rehearing of NCAA Case
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear an expedited appeal of a legal challenge that could force major changes in how the National Collegiate Athletic Association conducts big-time...
View ArticleCoursera Solicits University Partners for Career-Focused Courses
The massive open online course provider Coursera is taking a more active role in shaping the content produced by its university partners. In an email to universities creating content for Coursera, the...
View ArticleCampus Management, Workday Expand Product Lineups
Enterprise resource management software providers Campus Management and Workday are both rolling out updates to their product lineups ahead of the annual Educause conference next week, and both...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Composing With Computers
In today's Academic Minute, Ching-Hua Chuan, assistant professor of computing at the University of North Florida, discusses the addition of an element of technology into the music composition process....
View ArticleAudit Finds Misspending by Ex-Administrator at San Jose State
The former head of San Jose State University's department of justice studies misused campus funds for his own purposes and engaged in conflicts of interest, and university administrators failed to...
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