By Ben Yagoda. “To write you must have a streak of arrogance.” —Richard Hugo
At a comedy show I was at not long ago, the stand-up was doing a bit about how the main reason he was happy to be married was not having to deal with getting married. In the middle of it, a woman near the front of the audience shouted out, “Him too!” and gestured at the guy next to her. More...
By Allan Metcalf. Since the 19th century, one of the grandest of scholarly projects in the humanities has been the making of historical dictionaries. These are comprehensive multivolume dictionaries that aim to cover a language in all its historical depth and contemporary breadth. The best known of these is the Oxford English Dictionary, begun in 1857, published in installments from 1884 to 1933, and when completed amounting to 13 massive volumes. More...
By Chronicle Staff. Report: Rich Schools, Poor Students: Tapping Large University Endowments to Improve Student OutcomesAuthors: Jorge Klor de Alva and Mark SchneiderBy Mitch Gerber. A controversial requirement that undergraduates at the University of California at Los Angeles take a course on the value of ethnic, cultural, religious or gender diversity has been strongly approved by the Faculty Senate. The new policy will apply to most incoming freshmen this fall. More...
By Mitch Gerber. Expressing some anger at Gov. Tom Wolf’s insistence that an extra $45.3 million for the state-university system was contingent on a tuition freeze, the governing board of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education narrowly accepted the deal in a nonbinding resolution. More...
By Mitch Gerber. Oregon’s public universities will get state funds on the basis of student outcomes rather than enrollment, a state higher-education panel has decided. More...
By Andy Thomason. A student who threatened to kill his professor unless she changed his grade from a D to an A was arrested Thursday and kicked out his university. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports that Konstantinos Kostakis, a 33-year-old student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, threatened to kill Diane Howard, an assistant professor of commercial space operations, because he was in danger of being suspended because of his low GPA. More...
By Andy Thomason. The University of Wisconsin system will raise tuition for out-of-state undergraduates and some professional students at nine campuses, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The extra revenue is meant to prepare the system for the prospect of a $300-million cut proposed by Gov. Scott Walker, and to make it possible to freeze resident tuition for two more years. More...
By Andy Thomason. An educational consultant has been found guilty of defrauding a couple in Hong Kong by taking more than $2 million from them in exchange for promises to get their son admitted to Ivy League colleges, The Boston Globe reports. More...
By Andy Thomason. Nine state attorneys general have signed a letter calling on the U.S. Department of Education to forgive the loan debt of students who attended the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges. In their request, the officials join a group of U.S. senators and a group of former Corinthian students who call themselves the “Corinthian 100.” More...
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