By Ashley A. Smith. The Institute for Higher Education Policy launched a three-year initiative Wednesday to help states and colleges increase the number of adults with degrees by targeting those who earned course credits but did not complete college. More...
By Ashley A. Smith. Proposals for tuition-free college programs shift to meet the needs of the state while also exhibiting qualities of more successful existing initiatives. More...
By Marjorie Valbrun. Record $50 million gift to Saint Louis University gave donors the right to help pick head of research institute and give that person a faculty title. Professors see dangerous erosion of academic values. More...
By Marjorie Valbrun. Wisconsin Whitewater is latest university to find a presidential spouse can become a campus liability. Even on campuses without controversies, partners face heightened scrutiny. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. The University of California, San Francisco, settled with a former postdoctoral researcher for $150,000 after she sued it, saying a high-profile tobacco researcher harassed her. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. AAUP says St. Edward's U flouted norms surrounding shared governance, due process and academic freedom when it dismissed two "squeaky wheel" professors and didn't renew a third. University says otherwise. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Graduate student assistants at campuses across the U.S. are pushing for $15 per hour, what they call a minimum living wage. Many labor for far less, but Emory recently upped stipends to effectively meet that target. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. A research professor of fisheries at the University of Georgia is retiring as he is accused of profiting from the sale of caviar harvested from campus-owned sturgeon, the Athens Banner-Herald reported. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Historians announce their 2020 annual meeting won't have a general theme, to avoid "acrobatics" to fit it. Some like the idea and say that themes are pointless, while others say framing topics help make meetings and even disciplines more cohesive. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. New study suggests that the practice -- dominant in some fields -- unfairly penalizes those whose last names are at the end. More...
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