By Scott Jaschik. The American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity on Saturday released a letter urging the U.S. Senate to reject President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as U.S. attorney general. Read more...
23 janvier 2017
Georgia System Plans Two More Mergers
By Scott Jaschik. The University System of Georgia is continuing to merge institutions -- although these mergers typically involve maintaining multiple campuses. The system announced plans last week for two new pairs of institutions to be merged. Read more...
Diversity Group Urges Senate to Reject Sessions
Making the Case for Liberal Arts Colleges
By Scott Jaschik. Study finds positive impact on graduates’ life experiences, including leadership, civic-mindedness … and financial success. Read more...
The Price Women Pay for Co-Authorship
By Scott Jaschik. Study of economics faculty members finds that men get credit where women do not. Read more...
Chinese Company Accused of Fraud Withdraws From Project to Combat Fraud
By Elizabeth Redden. A Chinese company that was the subject of a Reuters investigation into application fraud has withdrawn from a multi-university project focused on verification of Chinese student transcripts, the news agency reported. Read more...
Student Government Leaders Call on Trump to Continue DACA
By Elizabeth Redden. More than 50 student government presidents have signed a letter to President Trump asking him to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, under which more than 700,000 young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, many of them now college students, have obtained the right to work and temporary protection from deportation. Read more...
Report on Effects of Brexit on Foreign Enrollments
By Elizabeth Redden. British universities stand to lose tuition income if students from European Union countries are required to pay higher fees in line with those paid by students from outside Europe, according to a new analysis released by the Higher Education Policy Institute, a U.K.-based think tank, and Kaplan International Pathways, an international student recruiting and services company. Read more...
The Changing English Major
By Elizabeth Redden. Amid enrollment declines, speakers at Modern Language Association discuss shifts in the major, such as a de-emphasis of traditional survey and the addition of more writing-related courses. Read more...
‘No Certificate of Global Citizenship’
By Elizabeth Redden. Amid turn toward nationalism, global educators consider their work. Read more...
Visa Denied
By Elizabeth Redden. Georgetown graduate student who studies migrant labor issues is denied visa to study at university's campus in Qatar, raising academic freedom concerns. Read more...
