Two Former Athletes Sue UNC, NCAA Over Fake Courses
Two former athletes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are suing the university and the National Collegiate Athletic Association for failing to provide college athletes with the quality...
View ArticleAmazon Announces Self-Publishing Program for Education
Retail giant Amazon wants to attract more academics to self-publish their textbooks through the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) program, and on Thursday, the company announced KDP EDU, a division of...
View ArticleWhy Is Western Michigan Ousting a Popular Dean?
About 200 people came to a meeting Thursday night of the board of Western Michigan University to protest the decision not to keep Alex Enyedi as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, MLive.com...
View Article28 Universities Will Participate in Sexual Assault Survey
Fewer than half of the elite research institutions that comprise the Association of American Universities will participate in that group's effort to anonymously survey students about the prevalence of...
View ArticleU. of California Board Tables Plan to Link Coaches' Bonuses to Academics
The University of California Board of Regents on Thursday tabled a proposal to require that any bonuses coaches receive based on athletic performance be linked to meeting certain academic requirements,...
View ArticleDuPage Board Approves $750,000 Buyout for President
The board of the College of DuPage on Thursday approved a $750,000 payment to President Robert Breuder next year (roughly twice his base pay) when he retires, The Chicago Tribune reported. While board...
View ArticleWhat Students Want From College Ratings
A national poll of college and high school students about college ratings systems finds that the two factors in which they are most interested are the percentage of students working in their field one...
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'Associate Dean of Eureka Moments'
A job ad for a position at the University of Bristol, in Britain, is capturing attention with its headline: "Associate Dean of Eureka Moments." (The first Eureka moment is illustrated at right -- but...
View ArticleRave Reviews for Film on Sex Assaults on Campus
"The Hunting Ground," a new documentary on sexual assaults on campus, had its debut Friday at Sundance and stunned many in the audience with the stories of women who had been sexually assaulted. The...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Infant Mortality in Tanzania
In today's Academic Minute, Lucy Thairu, an assistant consulting professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, details the problem of infant mortality in Tanzania. Learn more about the...
View ArticleGuidelines for Police-College Efforts to Stop Sex Assault
The Obama administration's task force on campus sexual assault on Monday published new recommendations for how colleges should partner with local law enforcement agencies to combat sexual violence. The...
View ArticleTennessee Colleges to Meet at Sex Assault Summit
More than 430 representatives from 76 colleges and universities in Tennessee will attend a summit this week focused on campus sexual assault. The summit will be hosted by the state's public and private...
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A Little Too Phallic for Texas Tech
Students at Texas Tech University celebrated a snowstorm last week by erecting a large snow sculpture of a penis. Accounts of the size vary from 8 to 11 feet. As this video shows, the university opted...
View ArticlePrivate Business School Joins U. of Iowa
AIB College of Business will become part of the University of Iowa, the two institutions announced Monday. AIB is a private nonprofit business school in Des Moines with 1,000 students in undergraduate...
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Blizzard Shuts Many Colleges
Many colleges in New England, the New York area and New Jersey are closed today due to the massive blizzard in the region. Smith College decided to announce its decisions on second-round early-decision...
View ArticleYale Leaders Respond to Criticism of Police Action
Yale University leaders sent an e-mail to the campus on Monday about the much-debated action of a university police officer to detain at gunpoint a black male student who was briefly suspected (based...
View ArticleFBI: Russians Tried to Recruit Spies at University in N.Y.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday charged that three Russians had been part of a spy ring in New York City for their country -- and that they sought recruits at a university in New York. An...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Alzheimer’s Risk Factors
In today's Academic Minute, Brian Balin, a neuropathologist at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, discusses his research on explaining and treating the devastating neurodegenerative...
View ArticleVirginia Commonwealth Drops SAT Requirement
Virginia Commonwealth University announced Tuesday that it is dropping the SAT requirement for applicants who have a high school grade-point average of at least 3.3. Officials said that they have come...
View ArticleACT Launches College and Career Readiness Campaign
ACT, the nonprofit testing giant, this week began its third annual national career and college readiness campaign. The 34 participating states will recognize a community college and an employer for...
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