By Lindsay McKenzie. Balking at a requirement to upload a copy of his doctoral thesis to an online database run by library services company ProQuest, one student pushes back. More...
ADA Lawsuit Prompts Institutional Change, Draws More Students
By Lindsay McKenzie. Atlantic Cape Community College reformed its accessibility practices after a disability discrimination lawsuit. Now students with disabilities are enrolling in record numbers. More...
Colleges Face Growing Cybersecurity Threat
By Lindsay McKenzie. Cyberattacks on higher education institutions are on the rise, Moody’s Investors Service reports. More...
Legal Challenge to Arkansas's New Tenure Policy
By Colleen Flaherty. Revisions to the University of Arkansas system’s tenure policy violate faculty due process rights in retroactively modifying contracts, according to a federal lawsuit filed Friday and first reported by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. More...
Academy of Sciences Approves Expulsion Policy
By Colleen Flaherty. The National Academy of Sciences voted to allow expulsion of members who violate its Code of Conduct, including sexual harassment, Science reported. Previously membership was a lifetime honor. Some 84 percent of voting members approved the amendment to the academy’s bylaws. Members may now be expelled by a two-thirds vote of the academy’s 17-member governing council. More...
Undue Burden
By Colleen Flaherty. Who's doing the heavy lifting in terms of diversity and inclusion work? Underrepresented faculty members -- and that's something that should alarm everyone, according to a new study. More...
More on the 9.2% Drop in Language Enrollments
By Colleen Flaherty. The Modern Language Association previously reported that total enrollments, undergraduate and graduate, in languages other than English dropped by 9.2 percent between 2013 and 2016. A new, final analysis from the MLA shows that there were gains in nearly half of all language programs (45.5 percent) that mitigate the trend. More...
(More) Bias in Science Hiring
By Colleen Flaherty. New study finds discrimination against women and racial minorities in hiring in the sciences. The study's about postdocs, but it has important implications for all of academe. More...
'Plan U' for Mandatory Sharing of Pub Preprints
By Colleen Flaherty. An essay in PLOS Biology argues that funding agencies should require grantees to post their papers on preprint servers such as arXiv and bioRxiv before submitting them to academic journals. More...
Does This Research Have an Agenda?
By Colleen Flaherty. Report attacks Koch-funded Regulatory Studies Center at George Washington University as a pro-fossil-fuel-industry idea launderer. University and Koch deny the charge. More...