By Elizabeth Redden. The Department of Education is investigating whether the University of Maryland at College Park complied with a law requiring disclosure of foreign gifts and contracts, The Washington Post reported. More...
27 octobre 2019
26 octobre 2019
CUNY Contract Deal Means Big Raise for Adjuncts
By Colleen Flaherty. The City University of New York and its Professional Staff Congress faculty union reached a tentative deal on a five-year contract that increases pay for adjuncts by 71 percent, they announced Wednesday. The agreement also allows adjuncts to take more time to advise and work one on one with students and to engage in professional development. More...
26 octobre 2019
Peer Pressure
By Colleen Flaherty. Arizona State graduate student says that even after the professor who abused her left campus, her fellow students continued to harass and blame her for the disruption to their careers. More...
26 octobre 2019
Grad Enrollment: Gains at Home, Losses Abroad
By Colleen Flaherty. New graduate school enrollments continue to fall among international students, but underrepresented U.S. minority enrollments are way up. More...
26 octobre 2019
Bold Move in Graduate Education
By Colleen Flaherty. In a reform aimed at reducing Ph.D. program timelines and attrition, University of Chicago will guarantee full funding to humanities and social sciences students -- in exchange for program caps. More...
26 octobre 2019
Feds: Professor Spent Grant Money at Strip Clubs
By Colleen Flaherty. Drexel University agreed to pay the government $189,000 in a federal case involving a former professor who allegedly spent his grant money at strip clubs and sports bars in Philadelphia, the Associated Press reported. More...
26 octobre 2019
Clearer Policies for Firing Professors at Nebraska
By Colleen Flaherty. The Faculty Senate at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln last week approved clarifications to the process by which professors may be dismissed, the Lincoln Journal-Star reported. The changes stem from the controversial 2017 dismissal of Courtney Lawton, a graduate student and lecturer in English who was filmed protesting and flipping off a member of the campus chapter of the political group Turning Point USA. More...
26 octobre 2019
Critical Reception
By Colleen Flaherty. Students at NYU and Rutgers are asking why professors who've been found to have behaved inappropriately with students were welcomed to campus this semester. More...
26 octobre 2019
Professor Banned for Saying He'd Shoot Students
By Colleen Flaherty. Wagner College banned an associate professor of psychology from campus indefinitely for making threatening remarks against students, according to SILive.com. More...
24 octobre 2019
The Bomb in College Classrooms
We're not teaching students enough about weapons of mass destruction -- and it shows, warns Sarah Bidgood. More...
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