By Rick Seltzer. American colleges and universities can't count on ever-increasing numbers of international students, panelists warn. Read more...
28 septembre 2016
28 septembre 2016
'Black Lives Matter' at Admissions Meeting
By Rick Seltzer. Fallout from a controversial statement was on full display Saturday at the annual membership meeting closing the National Association for College Admission Counseling’s 2016 national conference. Read more...
28 septembre 2016
Renewed Diversity Push
By Jake New. As first academic year since last fall's protests start, many colleges are adding diversity programs to orientation or requiring students to complete online multicultural training. Read more...
28 septembre 2016
Groups Release New Guide to Student Mental Health
By Jake New. The National Alliance on Mental Illness and the Jed Foundation on Wednesday released a new guide about mental health for students and their parents. Called Starting the Conversation: College and Your Mental Health, the guide is designed to help parents and other family members discuss mental health issues with their children before they leave for college. Read more...
28 septembre 2016
Congresswoman Proposes Ed Department Offer Loan Assistance to Sexual Assault Victims
By Jake New. In a letter to the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights Tuesday, Representative Jackie Speier, a California Democrat, urged OCR to work with the Office of Federal Student Aid to help victims of campus sexual assault with their student loans. Read more...
28 septembre 2016
Questions on Professional Liability
By Colleen Flaherty. Email from historians' group sparks debate about individual liability insurance offered by professional associations and whether faculty members need this kind of coverage. Read more...
28 septembre 2016
Lego Grad Student
By Colleen Flaherty. A "hollow head struggling to make it through a blocky world" helps one Ph.D. student and his many followers cope with graduate school's challenges. Read more...
28 septembre 2016
Tweeting Your Way to Tenure
By Colleen Flaherty. American Sociological Association report suggests standards by which departments may consider social media activity and other public communications in tenure and promotion decisions. Read more...
28 septembre 2016
'Rushing' the Academic Job Market
By Colleen Flaherty. Is applying for tenure-track jobs like rushing a series of exclusive sororities? That’s the idea behind a new web video. Read more...
28 septembre 2016
What Students Really Think
By Colleen Flaherty. A new book by undergraduates at Michigan State offers teaching advice based on thousands of comments from students starting with the prompt, 'To my professor. Read more...
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