By Colleen Flaherty. Cal State Northridge professor says she hasn't returned to the classroom after an online threat because the university hasn't made her feel safe. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. A professional association of writers that supports hundreds of creative writing departments just fired its executive director of three decades, with no public explanation. More...

By Scott Jaschik. What happens to diversity-minded educators when their son is wait-listed by Yale, but his biracial best friend with lower grades and test scores gets in? A new play has people talking. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Stephen Hawking, the noted physicist who died this week, worked for many years at the University of Cambridge, where he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (a position once held by Isaac Newton), the Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and a member of the University's  Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, which he founded. More...

By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. The University of Michigan’s Central Student Government election has gone to the dogs. 
Specifically, a corgi. Or at least that’s the wish of some students who have thrown their support behind a beloved campus therapy dog, Reggie Bee, as a presidential hopeful. More...

By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Conservative student government representative at University of Texas at Austin campaigned to change College of Liberal Arts to College of Conservative Arts and College of Liberal Arts -- or COCACOLA. He isn't getting the name change, but did prompt discussion. More...