By Scott Jaschik. Admissions officers have become less likely than in recent years to check on the social media accounts of applicants, according to a new survey by Kaplan Test Prep. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Six Democratic senators have written to U.S. News & World Report asking it to change its methodology to put more focus on institutions that educate students from many socioeconomic backgrounds. The letter follows some tweaks in the methodology this year, changes that critics said did little to shift the system away from one that favors wealthy institutions that educate many wealthy students. More...
By Scott Jaschik. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's board and chancellor on Monday unveiled a plan to return Silent Sam, a statue of a Confederate soldier, to campus. The statue would be housed in a new building that would cost more than $5 million to construct and $800,000 a year to maintain. More...
By Scott Jaschik. An 1862 federal law, the Morrill Act, created land-grant universities. In the years since, some land-grant universities have become internationally prominent research universities, and many are crucial to their states. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Oakland University, in Michigan, is distributing hockey pucks to faculty members and some students for use against active shooters on campus, The Detroit News reported. More...
By Scott Jaschik. The American Anthropological Association, the Society for American Archaeology and the Archaeological Institute of America have joined to submit a brief in support of the plaintiffs who have sued the Trump administration alleging that the president does not have authority under the Antiquities Act to substantially reduce the size of Utah's Bears Ears National Monument. More...
By Scott Jaschik. A survey of colleges by Kaplan Test Prep finds, for the third year in a row, a decline in the share of colleges (25 percent this year) that check applicants' social media profiles during the admissions process. The figure was 40 percent in 2015. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Former students have sued the defunct Mount Ida College, its former board members and some of its representatives, MassLive reported. More...
By Ellie Bothwell for Times Higher Education. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has paid $424,000 to insure itself against a significant drop in tuition revenue from Chinese students. More...
By David Matthews for Times Higher Education. Country plans shift away from evaluating faculty members only on research metrics. Move would also make it possible to be hired on the basis of teaching. More...
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