By Colleen Flaherty. Faculty members play a critical role in how ethnic and racial minorities and women interpret the rigors of graduate school, according to a new study to be presented at the upcoming meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. The Council of Graduate Schools is launching a research project to track the career paths of Ph.D.s in the humanities with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, it announced Thursday. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Princeton general-education proposal would require all students -- even those already proficient in a foreign language -- to study a language other than English. Most of the shrinking number of institutions with requirements let students test out of them. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. “The Double Bind: The Politics of Racial and Class Inequalities in the Americas” examines the how race and class shape inequalities throughout the Americas and how countries respond to them, for better or worse. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Since the first decade of the new millennium, the words ranking, evaluation, metrics, h-index and impact factors have wreaked havoc in the world of higher education and research. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Writers’ group has some concerns but rejects idea of a crisis. It offers guidelines that back free expression but also sympathize with the demands of minority students. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Some research attributes gender imbalances in the sciences, technology, math and engineering in part to women’s deliberate life choices; in other words, getting married and having children keeps some women out of the workforce. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Few professions seem more ripe for fictionalization than that of the academic. Maybe that's because writers have some things in common with professors: a typically long and trying initiation period, dedication to a life of the mind, and healthy portions of criticism. Many writers also teach. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Study suggests that scientific impact doesn't have to decrease with age and scientists have a unique kind of IQ that accurately predicts their career success. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Colorado at Boulder is revamping doctoral studies in languages and literature, it announced Tuesday. The change -- in an effort to recruit top talent -- entails restructuring support for six Ph.D. programs into a new Consortium of Doctoral Studies in Literature and Cultures. Programs involved are those in French/Italian, Spanish/Portuguese, German, classics, English and Japanese/Chinese. Read more...
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