By Scott Jaschik. Seattle University has removed the name of the late Archbishop Thomas Connolly from an athletics center, citing his role in covering up the abuse of a pedophile priest for years, The Seattle Times reported. More...
21 mai 2018
21 mai 2018
Virginia Alters Rules on Campus Use by Unaffiliated Groups
By Scott Jaschik. The University of Virginia on Friday announced changes to its rules on the use of campus by groups unaffiliated with the university. The university has been considering its rules since last year's march through the campus by white nationalists shouting Nazi chants. More...
21 mai 2018
Anxiety at Hiram
By Greg Toppo. Last December, Hiram College wrote to alumni to assure them that an ongoing academic redesign of the 168-year-old liberal arts college, led by President Lori Varlotta, would proceed in an orderly fashion: “Like just about every process Varlotta launches, this one will be inclusive, data-driven, and transparent,” the college said in a message on its website. More...
21 mai 2018
Higher Ed’s Role in Addressing School Violence
Across the nation, high school students are now selecting the colleges and universities where they will spend the next formative chapter of their lives. They are making their choices against a backdrop of unprecedented public attention to gun violence, thanks to a bold and galvanizing uprising that they themselves have led. While they are high school students today, they will be college students next. Higher education has to be ready. More...
21 mai 2018
Can Higher Ed Change America’s Negative View?
Several national polls make it clear that the public and policy makers are not happy with higher education institutions. Much of the discontent is coming from forces beyond higher education’s control, but colleges and universities are not helpless. More...
21 mai 2018
Higher ed embraces the new ‘traditional’ student
Techno-News Blog. The Wall Street Journal profiles the growing culture of making higher education more accessible for adult learners. With 41% of students over the age of 25 and likely trying to balance school, work and family, students are receiving financial support to eliminate gaps in financial need after loans are applied to tuition costs. More...
18 mai 2018
Poll: Americans look to colleges for research innovation
Techno-News Blog. A new study from the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation shows that a majority of Americans look to colleges and universities to drive the nation’s innovation imperatives. According to the survey, 71% of the respondents believe higher education to be a bigger factor in innovation than corporations or government, but they also said that the U.S. is behind other countries in research and development. More...
11 mai 2018
Government mulls restrictions on Chinese researchers
The Trump administration, concerned about China’s growing technological prowess, is considering strict measures to block Chinese citizens from performing sensitive research at American universities and research institutes over fears they may be acquiring intellectual secrets, according to people familiar with the deliberations, write Ana Swanson and Keith Bradsher for The New York Times. More...11 mai 2018
Berkeley reviews how to handle controversial speakers
By Chris Qunitana, The Chronicle of Higher Education. If a student group wants to provoke a frenzy with an event at the University of California at Berkeley, it soon may have to tell the administration why, and provide volunteer monitors to deal with any resulting unruliness. More...10 mai 2018
What Makes Canada Unique in Post-Secondary Education
By . An Australian colleague of mine once suggested to me that I built my career primarily on filling in the holes in Statistics Canada’s severely limited PSE stats. I don’t think this is actually true, but it probably is fair to say that some of the breaks in my career have involved explaining Canadian PSE to the rest of the world in terms they can understand. More...
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