For-Profit Groups Sue to Block Gainful Employment Rules
The for-profit sector's primary trade group on Thursday filed suit in federal court to block gainful employment regulations, which the U.S. Department of Education unveiled last week. A federal judge...
View ArticleSimmons Will Admit Transgender Applicants
Simmons College, in Massachusetts, has become the third women's college to announce that it will admit transgender applicants, The Boston Globe reported. Many women's colleges, formally or informally,...
View ArticleFormer Football Player Sues UNC Over Fake Courses
Michael McAdoo, formerly a football player at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has sued the institution, saying that by guiding him (and other athletes) to fake courses, it deprived him...
View ArticleVictim of Home Invasion Offers Thieves Free Tuition
A Texas man who was held a gunpoint during a home invasion has offered his attackers a free college education if they turn themselves in to the authorities, Fox News reported. “This is not something to...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Micro-Pathogens
In today's Academic Minute, Joseph Rubin, a microbiologist at the University of Saskatchewan, discusses microscopic pathogens. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
View ArticleDismissed Faculty Members Return to General Theological Seminary
Manhattan’s General Theological Seminary welcomed back on a provisional basis Monday seven of the eight faculty members it dismissed earlier this year, the The New York Times reported. The seminary’s...
View ArticleHow to Get Socially Conscious Students to Get Flu Shots
Research has shown that many college students, even those aware of the health benefits of flu shots, don't ever get them. Further, studies have shown that a financial incentive (say $10) gets many...
View ArticleA Department's Approach to Recognizing Native Groups
The English department at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Ontario, has announced that all syllabuses will note that the university is built on land that belonged to Native Canadian groups. The statement...
View ArticleNew Racial Dispute at San Jose State U.
Last fall, San Jose State University students were outraged to learn that a black student was taunted for months in his dormitory room. The university pledged to do more to create a racially inclusive...
View ArticleUniversities Blast Congressional Probe of NSF Grants
The Association of American Universities, a group of the nation’s leading research institutions, on Monday criticized an inquiry by the U.S. House science committee into specific National Science...
View ArticleUniversities Oppose Norway's New Tuition Plan
University leaders in Norway are working against a government plan to force them to charge tuition to students from outside the European Union, News in English Norway reported. Tuition is free in...
View ArticleLaptop Heist at UCLA
A thief took 55 Apple laptops from the library at the University of California at Los Angeles this weekend, The Los Angeles Times reported. The thief smashed a window at 2:26 a.m. Saturday and appeared...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Inclement Space Weather
In today's Academic Minute, Daniel Baker, a physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, discusses his research on the dangerous weather patterns of outer space. Learn more about the Academic...
View ArticleMIT's Football Wins Catching up to Its Nobel Prizes
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has now won as many football games in the last 70 years as it has Nobel Prizes, thanks to an undefeated 8-0 season. Between 1944 and 2013, people with MIT...
View ArticleClosing the Law School Gender Gap
Reducing class size and shaking up grading systems could help close the gender gap in professional schools, suggests new research in the Journal of Legal Studies. Authors Daniel Ho and Mark Kelman,...
View ArticleDecline in Religion Faculty Jobs
The last academic year has been a difficult one for those seeking jobs in the field of religion. A joint report by the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature -- released...
View ArticleProfessor Told Students to 'Americanize' Names
North Carolina State University says that a professor there will apologize to his students for making "an offensive statement in jest." A statement from the university says that "the professor realizes...
View ArticleAustralian Universities Accused of Tolerating Foreign Student Cheating
Some academics in Australia are accusing universities of admitting “functionally illiterate” international students and tolerating widespread cheating because they are “addicted” to the fees these...
View ArticleFeds Need More Power to Hold Colleges Accountable, Official Says
The massive federal law governing student aid needs to be simplified, allow more room for innovation, and hold colleges more accountable for student outcomes, a top U.S. Department of Education...
View ArticleBridging the Middle-Skills Gap
Business leaders must lead efforts to close the skills gap, according to a new report from Accenture, Burning Glass Technologies and Harvard Business School. The report focuses on the demand for...
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