By Scott Jaschik. University admitted that its business school submitting fabricated statistics for years to U.S. News. Students filed a class action. More...
Temple Will Pay $5.5M to Settle Suits Over False Rankings Data
A Challenge Over a Challenged SAT Score
By Scott Jaschik. A student's score went way up the second time she took the SAT. A civil rights lawyer is demanding that ETS and College Board validate the second score. More...
Popularity of Early Decision Continues to Grow
By Scott Jaschik. Colleges set records in applications and admissions figures, despite lingering concerns of many experts that the programs favor wealthier applicants. Admit rates are dropping. More...
Challenges for Small Literary Journals
By Scott Jaschik. Serious journals of literature and ideas pride themselves on in-depth pieces that advance scholarship. The latest issue of the journal Novel features “‘No Such Thing as a Voice Pure and Simple’: Henry James’s Elocutionary Insecurities and The American.” The next issue of Papers on Language and Literature will feature the essay “‘What Was It?’: The Avant-texte and the ‘Grinding Feeling of Wretchedness’ in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘The Fly.’” These are pieces that will never end up in mass publications but that are part of the development of literary scholarship. More...
Political Meddling in Korea
By Ellie Bothwell for Times Higher Education. Ongoing political interference in the appointments of university leaders in South Korea risks destroying trust between scientists and the government and hampering the country’s progress on research performance, academics have warned. More...
Making Mentoring Relationships Meaningful
Adriana Bankston examines the true meaning of mentoring and how best to mentor the mentors. More...
A Beyond the Professoriate Faculty Challenge
Faculty members can better advise students about career options by interviewing people in higher education -- and they don't even have to leave their campuses to do it, write Jennifer Polk and L. Maren Wood. More...
The Joy of Kids for the Teacher-Scholar
Kids and academic life complement and enrich each other in lovely, unexpected ways, writes Kyle Sebastian Vitale. More...
Fostering Trust in Academic Departments
It is crucial in a vibrant academic unit, and you can cultivate it in some specific ways, advise Elizabeth A. Luckman, C. K. Gunsalus, Nicholas C. Burbules and Robert A. Easter. More...
Validation and Sassiness in Academe
When a professor saw herself heading toward the jaded attitude she'd noticed in senior colleagues, she decided she had two choices. More...