Florida State Sued Over Alleged Rape by Football Star
The woman who says that Jameis Winston raped her is suing Florida State University, The Tallahassee Democrat reported. Winston, a star quarterback who on Wednesday announced plans to enter the National...
View Article$118 Million Gift for MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday announced a $118 million gift from an alumnus, Samuel Tak Lee, to create a real estate entrepreneurship lab that will promote social responsibility...
View ArticleStudent Sues U. of Oregon Over Alleged Sexual Assault
A University of Oregon student is suing the university and its men's basketball coach, alleging that they knowingly recruited a basketball player who had previously been accused of sexual assault and...
View ArticleElsevier Announces Interdisciplinary Open Access Journal
Elsevier is inviting the research community to help the publisher build an open-access journal covering all disciplines, scheduled to launch later this year. As part of the new journal, the publisher...
View ArticleProfessor Sorry for Sharing Racially Insensitive Content
An adjunct professor of sociology at several New Jersey institutions denied allegations of racism this week, after a someone claiming to be a former student reported the instructor for sharing racially...
View ArticlePacific Lutheran Adjuncts Could Reject Union
A National Labor Relations Board ruling in December could make it easier for adjuncts at religious colleges and for faculty members generally at private colleges and universities to unionize. The...
View ArticleAppeals Court Denies Rehearing in Georgia State Fair Use Case
A federal appeals court has decided it won't rehear a case on whether or not Georgia State University's e-reserves violate publishers' copyright, setting up the possibility for a Supreme Court showdown...
View ArticleDartmouth Charges Students With Cheating in Ethics Course
Dartmouth College has charged 64 students -- many of them athletes -- with cheating in a sports ethics course, the Valley News reported. According to the course's instructor, Randall Balmer, dozens of...
View ArticleProfessor Resigns After Admitting to Sex With Student
An instructor at a Nova Scotia university resigned his position Thursday after admitting to having had a sexual relationship with a student he met during an online course, MetroNews reported. Michael...
View ArticleNorth Dakota Bill Would Give Accused Students a Lawyer
North Dakota legislators introduced a bill Thursday that would let accused students be represented by a lawyer in campus judicial hearings, InForum reported. The legislation would grant students in...
View ArticleWebsite Aims to Crowdfund Payments to Former College Athletes
A website formed to crowdfund payments to former college athletes has begun collecting live contributions, despite attempts from colleges and conferences to shut it down, CBS Sports reported.
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Telegony
In today's Academic Minute, Angela Crean, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of New South Wales, discusses telegony, the idea that a woman's past sexual partners can influence the genetics of...
View Article6 Football Players at South Dakota Implicated in Fraud
Eleven people -- six of them former football players at the University of South Dakota -- have pleaded guilty in a scheme in which students filed tax forms to receive refunds on behalf of people other...
View ArticlePaine College Suspends Football Program for 2 Years
Paine College announced Saturday that it is suspending its football program, which its board voted in 2012 to revive. The team played its first season in 2014. A statement from the college noted the...
View Article"This Week": The NLRB Ruling on Faculty Unions
On "This Week,"Inside Higher Ed's free news podcast, two experts on faculty and labor, William A. Herbert and Gary Rhoades, discuss the recent ruling of the National Labor Relations Board that may make...
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Does Montclair State Need $210K Mascot Scuplture?
Some students at Montclair State University are asking why the institution needs to spend $210,000 on a 12-foot bronze statue of the mascot, a red hawk, NorthJersey.com reported. (The design is at...
View ArticleObama Proposes New Technical Training Fund
In addition to its tuition-free community college plan, the White House on Friday released a proposal for a new technical job-training fund. The new money would build on a similar $2-billion workforce...
View ArticleCalifornia Budget Plan Tops $1B for Community Colleges
California Governor Jerry Brown’s higher ed budget plan for the next year would give give a chunk of new money to community colleges. The proposal released late last week also, as expected, threaten...
View ArticleWhite House Meeting on College Athletics
The White House will be the site of a meeting this week with Obama administration officials, college athletics directors and leaders of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, USA Today reported....
View ArticleStudy: Digital Learning Effective for Health Professions
A review of 108 studies has concluded that digital learning is likely to be as effective as traditional in-person education in undergraduate health professions education worldwide. The review was...
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