By Ashley A. Smith. Amid the fallout of more than 16,000 students shut out by Corinthian Colleges' closure, institutions from California to New York are teaming up with the U.S. Department of Education to help keep those students on track toward completing college. Read more...
By Ashley A. Smith. Since President Obama proposed a national free community college initiative, many have wondered if the idea has a chance of becoming reality. Few ideas seems to go anywhere in Washington, where political dysfunction runs rampant. At this month's American Association of Community Colleges meeting, enthusiasm remained high for the proposal, even as some community college presidents expressed skepticism over the feasibility of the plan. Read more...
By Claire Potter. During this year of police violence, and organizing against police violence, I have avoided blogging about the many issues raised by Ferguson, Staten Island and Baltimore. I am ambivalent about this decision, because it isn’t as though I do not have a lot to say, and that saying it in this space is not important. Many of these protests occurred in my own city: my students and I marched, and we talked. Urban uprisings have been the most consistent theme of the academic year.
Yet I have been overwhelmed by these events. More importantly, I have also been troubled by the role social media has played in the dynamics of these uprisings, and by the extent to which some academics posture as virtual, semi-professional, urban revolutionaries when they talk to the Internet. More...
By Andy Thomason. A Duke University student has apologized for hanging a noose on the campus last month, and will be allowed to return to the college next semester, The News & Observer reports. The undergraduate, whose identity has not been revealed, wrote in a letter of apology that the noose stemmed from a “lack of cultural awareness and joking personality.” More...
By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Census Bureau will continue asking about college graduates’ areas of study in a major survey after it considered dropping the question, Science magazine reports. More...
By Andy Thomason. A bill introduced in Congress on Tuesday would forbid colleges that receive federal financial aid to require students to agree to mandatory arbitration clauses, which have been used by for-profit colleges to prevent students from suing them. More...
By Lance Lambert. Corinthian Colleges Inc. made waves in higher education this week when it announced it would abruptly close its remaining campuses, displacing 16,000 students. The campuses — operated by the Corinthian subsidiaries Everest College, Everest Institute, Heald College, and WyoTech — were located mostly in California and other western states. More...
By Peter Schmidt. The University of Illinois violated principles of academic freedom in withdrawing a tenured faculty appointment to Steven G. Salaita over his harsh criticisms of Israel, the American Association of University Professors argues in a report released on Tuesday. More...
By Jennifer Halsall. The end of the academic year has given rise to a host of farewell traditions and activities, but in recent years, one activity in particular has capitalized on the finality of graduation. The last lecture – a send-off lecture given to graduates, students or alumni – is becoming an increasingly common trend at Canadian universities. It’s a relatively new phenomenon, modeled after the 2007 lecture given by Randy Pausch, a terminally-ill computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. More...
By Ivan Semeniuk. An election year budget that focuses on investments in research infrastructure and partnerships with industry but flatlines funding for basic science is being lamented as a lost opportunity by Canadian research advocates. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
