"This Week" Podcast: Copyright Court Ruling / Ebola Concerns on Campus
On the latest "This Week,"Inside Higher Ed's free weekly news podcast, the University of Minnesota's Nancy Sims joined Editor Scott Jaschik and the moderator Casey Green to discuss the implications for...
View ArticleFaculty at Lincoln U. (Pennsylvania) Votes No Confidence
Faculty members at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania have voted no confidence in President Robert R. Jennings, citing declining enrollment and worsening financial conditions at the historically black...
View Article75 Layoffs as Benedictine Shifts Springfield Campus
Benedictine University, whose main campus is outside Chicago, plans to shift its Springfield campus away from undergraduate programs for new high school graduates, and to instead focus on adult...
View ArticleNCAA Spends Record Amount on Lobbying
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has spent nearly as much money on lobbying efforts this year as it did the last three years combined -- and there's still a fiscal quarter to go. The NCAA...
View Article3 Colleges in New York Agree to Drop Crime Question
Three colleges in New York State have reached an agreement with the state's attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, to drop application questions on criminal records that Schneiderman and others said...
View ArticleLessons Learned on Competency-Based Education
Western Governors University has unveiled a new website, dubbed CBEInfo, which seeks to be a discussion space for lessons from the nonprofit university's collaborations with community colleges. Western...
View ArticleFoundation Bought Alabama Coach's Home for $3.1M
Nick Saban, head football coach at the University of Alabama, sold his home to the Crimson Tide Foundation for nearly $3.1 million, AL.com reported. The private nonprofit foundation, which helps fund...
View Article17% of Female MIT Students Say They Have Been Sexually Assaulted
About 17 percent of undergraduate women who responded to a survey at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have been sexually assaulted, but only 5 percent say they ever reported the...
View ArticleNew Bloomberg Effort to Help Low-Income Students
Bloomberg Philanthropies and other nonprofit groups will today announce a new effort to help talented low-income high school students get into and succeed in college, The New York Times reported. The...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Plants Can Hear
In today's Academic Minute, Heidi Appel and Rex Cocroft, scientists at the University of Missouri, demonstrate the way plants can hear predators. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
View ArticleNew Higher Ed Words
Our friends at Times Higher Education asked their readers to nominate new words for academics that need to be in the dictionary, but aren't. Among the entries: "spinpact - the art of talking up the...
View ArticleMore Specificity on Benefits of Community College
Disadvantaged students who enroll at community colleges and who would not otherwise have attended college are more likely to earn a bachelor's degree in the future, according to a newly released...
View ArticleColumbia Will Pay $9M to Settle Suit on AIDS Grants
Columbia University has agreed to pay $9 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that the university made false claims related to federal grants, Reuters reported. The suit charged that Columbia...
View ArticleWisconsin Sues Corinthian
Wisconsin's attorney general, J.B. Van Hollen, this week sued Corinthian Colleges over allegations that the for-profit chain engaged in "unfair, false, misleading and deceptive trade practices." The...
View ArticleDramatic Testimony in Trial on College's Accreditor
Press accounts are describing dramatic testimony in the second day of the trial of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, which stands accused in a lawsuit in California court of...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Saving the Bats
In today's Academic Minute, Gary Kwiecinski, a professor of biology at the University of Scranton, discusses his research on and efforts to protect bats. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
View ArticleGeorgia Player Must Sit Out 4 Games for Selling Autographs
Todd Gurley, a football player at the University of Georgia, must sit out a total of four games -- or 30 percent of the season -- for selling autographed memorabilia, the National Collegiate Athletic...
View Article$10 Million Gift for Chinese Student Scholarships at Yale
A $10 million gift to Yale University will go toward scholarships for low-income Chinese students. The gift is part of a $100 million endowment fund created by the co-founders of the Chinese real...
View ArticleAkron Tops in College Completion Contest
Akron beat out 56 other cities in a contest to increase college-degree production during a four-year period that concluded in 2013. The city on Wednesday received the $1 million Talent Dividend Prize,...
View ArticleMed School Enrollments Are Up Again
A total of 20,343 students enrolled in medical colleges this fall, an increase of 1.4 percent and a record number, the Association of American Medical Colleges announced. Number of under-represented...
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