By Elizabeth Redden. All but three states reported year-over-year increases in funding for public higher education, annual survey of state financing finds. More...
12 janvier 2020
12 janvier 2020
International Education in an Era of Climate Change
By Elizabeth Redden. A new network of international education professionals is trying to get the field to face the crisis of climate change -- and the carbon emissions generated by student air travel -- head-on. More...
12 janvier 2020
Masked Men Attack Students, Professors at Indian University
By Elizabeth Redden. Dozens of masked men armed with sticks and iron rods attacked students and professors at India’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University on Sunday, injuring more than 30 people, The Washington Post reported. More...
12 janvier 2020
Academic Groups Condemn Threat to Target Cultural Sites
By Elizabeth Redden. Academic groups on Monday condemned threats by President Trump to attack Iranian cultural sites. Trump said over the weekend that his administration had identified 52 Iranian sites, some of importance to “Iranian culture,” to target for attacks in the event Iran retaliates for the killing of Major General Qassim Suleimani last Friday in an American drone strike. More...
12 janvier 2020
A Way Out of Impasse Over LGBT Issues?
By Elizabeth Redden. A proposed split in the United Methodist Church could be good news for colleges that struggled with whether to retain their church affiliation following the adoption of anti-LGBT policies. More...
12 janvier 2020
Russian Journals Retract More Than 800 Papers Following Probe
By Elizabeth Redden. Russian academic journals are retracting more than 800 papers following an investigation by a Russian Academy of Sciences-appointed commission, Science reported. The investigation comes amid concerns in Russian science about plagiarism, self-plagiarism and “gift authorship,” in which academics are listed as co-authors without contributing work. More...
12 janvier 2020
Dozens of Students, Scholars Killed in Iran Plane Crash
By Elizabeth Redden. At least 18 Canadian universities reported that one or more of their students, professors or researchers died in the crash of a Ukrainian airliner in Iran on Wednesday, University Affairs reported. The victims include dozens of individuals who were affiliated with Canadian universities. More...
12 janvier 2020
Publishers to Review Papers on Chinese Minority Groups
By Elizabeth Redden. Academic publishers Springer Nature and Wiley both said they would re-evaluate articles previously published on Uighurs, Tibetans and other minority groups amid growing concern from scientists about China’s use of DNA to study ethnic minorities and the use of this research for surveillance-related purposes, The New York Times reported. More...
12 janvier 2020
SMU Sued for Severing Ties With Church
By Elizabeth Redden. Church body files suit after Southern Methodist amended its governance documents to separate itself from church authority. The move follows actions by the United Methodist Church to strengthen prohibitions on same-sex marriage. More...
12 janvier 2020
Florida Lawmakers Probe Foreign Research Funding
By Elizabeth Redden. Florida legislators have launched their own probe into federal funding for research universities, the first such inquiry at the state level, Science reported. More...
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