UT Austin Starts Leadership Center for College Athletes
The University of Texas at Austin will launch a new center dedicated to addressing the many academic and personal issues faced by college athletes, the university announced Monday. The Center for...
View ArticleDid Nevada Higher Ed Agency Plagiarize Brookings?
"Large sections" of a report by the Western outpost of the Brookings Institution appeared without appropriate credit in a report prepared by the Nevada System of Higher Education, The Las Vegas...
View ArticleCollege Credit Card Agreements Continue to Decline
The number of colleges that partner with financial institutions to offer credit cards has dropped by nearly 70 percent since 2009, according to new data from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau....
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Recognizing Faces
In today's Academic Minute, Volker Thoma, a psychologist at the University of East London, discusses research on improving our neurological and psychological understanding of facial recognition. Learn...
View ArticleMichigan Senate Passes Bill Banning Athlete Unions
Legislation that would ban the unionization of college athletes passed the Michigan Senate Tuesday. The bill would require all college athletes to be classified as "students," preventing them from...
View ArticleBall State U. Post-Tenure Review Plan Needs More Time
Ball State University’s Board of Trustees are worried that a controversial plan to weed out low-performing tenured faculty members is moving along too slowly, The Star Press reported. Terry King, Ball...
View ArticleNew York Mayor Calls for Suspension of CUNY Adjunct
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called for an adjunct instructor of English at Baruch College of the City University of New York to be suspended, following the instructor’s arrest this weekend for...
View ArticleKing's College London Faces Rebranding Controversy
King's College London has decided to rebrand itself simply as King's London, to the horror of many students and alumni, Times Higher Education reported. Administrators say that the change is needed to...
View ArticleRetraction Watch Expands With MacArthur Grant
Retraction Watch, a blog that tracks retractions of scholarly articles, will expand its coverage thanks to a $400,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In a blog post, the...
View ArticleOregon Loses Appeal of Apollo Lawsuit
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday sided with a lower court's decision to dismiss a class-action lawsuit the State of Oregon had filed against the Apollo Education Group. The suit alleged that Apollo,...
View ArticleEscaped Federal Prisoner Found in University Library
An escaped federal prisoner was found in the library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Indianapolis Star reported. Authorities said that Michael Ward escaped from a federal prison...
View ArticleLaw School Enrollments Continue Their Free Fall
Enrollment in law school hit a 32-year low this fall, with the 204 schools accredited by the American Bar Association enrolling 119,775 students this fall, 6.9 percent lower than last year and down...
View ArticleAudit Finds Dire Financial Challenges for Cheyney
The Pennsylvania state auditor is expected to release a report today finding that Cheyney University is in dire financial health, and that without dramatic changes, its “ability to continue to operate...
View ArticleWhy State Policies Fall Short on College Completion
The decade-old college completion push has fallen short at the state level because of failures to bring policy solutions to large numbers of lower-income students, according to a new report from Jobs...
View ArticleGroups Oppose Corinthian Sale to ECMC
A coalition of 46 student, consumer, veterans and civil rights groups on Wednesday wrote to the Obama Administration and U.S. Department of Education to oppose the proposed sale of 56 Corinthian...
View ArticleUAW Asks NLRB to Back TA Unions at Private Universities
The United Auto Workers, acting on behalf of teaching assistants and research assistants at Columbia University and the New School, has asked the National Labor Relations Board to hold elections on...
View ArticleAthletics Director Leaves West Virginia U. to Join NCAA
West Virginia University's athletic director, Oliver Luck, is leaving the university to join the National Collegiate Athletic Association as its executive vice president of regulatory affairs, the NCAA...
View ArticleAlamo Colleges Delays Plan to Eliminate Majors
Alamo Colleges is backing down for now from a controversial plan to eliminate majors from students’ degrees, Fox 29 reported. Earlier this fall, faculty members at all of Alamo’s San Antonio campuses...
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College President Criticized/Defended for Dorm Photo
Marcia Welsh, president of East Stroudsburg University, is being both criticized and defended for posing -- while delivering holiday cookies to students in dormitories -- with a group of shirtless male...
View ArticleObama Administration to Unveil College Ratings Plan
The U.S. Department of Education will release a much-anticipated outline of its college ratings system on Friday, according to several sources familiar with the department's plans.Department officials...
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