By Kaitlin Mulhere. Science and research advocates welcomed President Obama's 2016 budget proposal Monday, which would give the National Science Foundation a "vigorous, healthy budget," according to its director. Read more...
08 février 2015
Snow Day at UW Madison? Don't Even Think About It
With blizzards in the Midwest today and returning to New England, some colleges and universities in both regions are calling off classes. Read more...
Paul Ryan Supports Some Ideas in Obama Ratings Plan
President Obama's ratings plan has struggled to find Republican support. He may have found some Sunday. In an interview with The New York Times, Rep. Paul Ryan, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee and a leading Republican voice in Congress, voiced skepticism on Obama's plan for two years of free community college. Read more...
Some Professors Defend Ties to Financier Accused of Using Underage Girls
Jeffrey Epstein, a financier who served jail time for procuring an underage girl for prostitution, currently finds himself the focus of lawsuits saying that he arranged for various prominent people to have sex with underage girls. An article by Reuters notes that Epstein has also donated to many colleges and backed the work of various professors. Read more...
Princeton Review Takes Further Action Against UMKC
The Princeton Review announced Monday that it is taking additional action against the University of Missouri at Kansas City, in the wake of the release of an audit Friday that confirmed that the business school at the university had provided false information for ratings. Read more...
Too Many Tests for One Day
Many testing centers in the Northeast canceled the Jan. 24 SAT because of a blizzard in the region, and the College Board rescheduled those test takers for Feb. 7. One problem is that some of those test takers were already spoken for on Feb. 7 -- as that's a national ACT test day. Read more...
#libedunbound, or 'Forbidding Mourning'
By Eva Badowska. As Victor E. Ferrall Jr. offered a valediction for the liberal arts here, declaring them “over the brink,” colleagues at the recent Association of American Colleges and Universities conference in Washington, D.C., were abuzz designing its future: #libedunbound. Read more...
Did You Notice Where the Super Bowl Was Played?
By Karen Gross. With all the Super Bowl hype (and there was plenty before the game, given Deflategate), little attention has been paid to the irony of where the actual game was played in Arizona: the University of Phoenix Stadium. Yes, really.
Is there anything we can learn from the Super Bowl’s location for those of us toiling in the weeds of higher education?
The University of Phoenix, which boasts online enrollment in excess of 200,000 students at present (a decline from only several years ago when they had well more than half a million students), offers hundreds of degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Read more...
Follow the Money
By Colleen Flaherty. Lots of colleges and universities acknowledge troublesome -- if relatively small -- gaps in pay among men and women professors, and among white and minority professors. But it’s a hard thing to study and address, given the many variables and competing theories involved. So a new, comprehensive study of tenure-line faculty salaries at the University of California at Berkeley -- along with an administrative pledge to close revealed gaps -- is getting a lot of attention. Read more...
Replenishing Research
Waiting for the FCC
By Carl Straumsheim. College and university chief information officers are unsure of what to make of the Federal Communications Commission’s hard line on blocking personal wireless hot spots and whether it applies to higher education. Nearly a year after the issue emerged, the agency still has yet to clarify. Read more...
