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 contract agreement that New York University graduate-student employees cheered last month as a landmark victory for their labor movement has been ratified, the graduate students’ union announced Tuesday. More...

By Andy Thomason. Vassar College is the inaugural recipient of an annual $1-million award given to the college that most successfully admits and graduates low-income students, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation announced Tuesday. More...

By Andy Thomason. A lack of confidence in the leader of a popular conference at the University of Colorado at Boulder has cost it a $1-million donation, the Daily Camera reports. Jane Butcher, a philanthropist and chairwoman of the weeklong Conference on World Affairs, had offered to donate $1 million to help set up an endowment for the event but told the newspaper that she had withdrawn the offer because of a “lack of acceptance of CWA’s founding principles.” More...