By Marjorie Valbrun. When college presidency becomes the family business, leadership requires balancing. Walking in your father’s shoes while paving your own path has benefits -- and possible pitfalls. More...
6 mai 2018
6 mai 2018
A Silicon Valley 'Evangelist' Who Doesn't Bash Higher Ed
By Doug Lederman. Normally, when Silicon Valley types with titles like "education evangelist" lecture them, the themes tend to be about how slowly higher education is changing, how unprepared their colleges and universities are for the digital natives preparing to flood into them, and how alternatives like coding boot camps are poised to displace them. More...
6 mai 2018
422 Colleges Have Spaces Available for Fall
By Scott Jaschik. The National Association for College Admission Counseling is today releasing its annual list of colleges that still have spaces available for fall undergraduate enrollment. There are 422 institutions on the list, up slightly from last year and substantially from several years before. More...
6 mai 2018
Shrek Loses Shot at Becoming Toledo Mascot
By Scott Jaschik. A tweet (at right) from the University of Toledo Tuesday -- featuring Shrek -- promised that if that tweet received 500,000 retweets, Shrek would become the university's new mascot. The university never intended the tweet to be taken seriously, but it took off. More...
6 mai 2018
Fresno State Won't Punish Professor for Tweets
By Scott Jaschik. California State University at Fresno announced late Tuesday that it would not punish a professor whose tweets calling the late first lady Barbara Bush racist prompted numerous calls for her firing -- although many experts on academic freedom said that there was no basis for doing so. More...
6 mai 2018
Video of Fraternity Initiation Shows Use of Slurs
By Scott Jaschik. Minority students and others at Syracuse University held a protest Wednesday over racist incidents on campus, highlighted by the publication in the student newspaper of a video of a fraternity initiation that includes slurs about black, Latino and Jewish people, as well as skits that mock the idea of gay sex, Syracuse.com reported. More...
6 mai 2018
Revolt Over an Editor
By Colleen Flaherty. Prominent psychologist apologizes and resigns as journal editor over allegations of aggressive self-citation and more. More...
6 mai 2018
Conservative Voices Welcome at Brown
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. While the university has been known as a place where students shouted down a speaker, administrators are trying to shake that image, and a new student group has launched to diversify the types of speakers who visit. More...
6 mai 2018
Barred From Her Campus Home
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. A University of Maryland student who voluntarily checked into the hospital for a mental health scare wasn't allowed back into her campus apartment, which struck many on campus as insensitive. More...
6 mai 2018
From Austerity to Attacks on Scholars
Dana Cloud examines the neoliberal academy in the age of Trump, arguing that the recent bullying is, in fact, closely tied to other long-term attempts to minimize the critical potential of universities. More...
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