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The Professor's Dilemma
By Bardiac. Let's imagine, say, a professor is teaching an advanced underwater basketweaving class. And let's imagine, too, that the class grades are based primarily on a presentation, a portfolio of several baskets, and a self-evaluation of the basket portfolio. Just imagine.
Now imagine that there's a student enrolled in the class who appeared for a couple of weeks, and did the group presentation, and did a fine job at that. And then the student pretty much disappeared. But the student emailed occasionally saying that zie was coming to class the next week. And then that zie had had to miss class, but couldn't drop because [fill in excuse], and zie would do the work for the class and turn it in on the last day, because that's what the grade depends on. More...
Baylor U. Evicts Alumni Association From Campus Offices
By Andrew Mytelka. The long-running dispute between the university and its alumni association reached a tipping point this month, when Baylor locked out employees of the alumni group from campus offices they had been using, reports the Waco Tribune. The eviction followed the university’s demand that the independent Baylor Alumni Association stop using Baylor’s name and trademark, and transfer alumni outreach to the university’s own Baylor Alumni Network. The association has since moved to an off-campus office in Waco, Tex. More...
Fla. Judge Rejects Union’s Challenge to New Rules on Tenure-Like Contracts
By . An administrative-law judge in Florida has rejected a faculty union’s challenge to new guidelines from the state Board of Education on the awarding of tenure-like continuing contracts at state colleges. The guidelines include a requirement that institutions in the state-college system consider measures of student success in awarding the contracts to faculty members. The state-college system was formerly known as a community-college system but no longer goes by that name because some of its member institutions offer four-year programs. More...
Consumer-Protection Agency May Act Against ITT Educational Services
By . The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has notified ITT Educational Services that the bureau’s enforcement office is considering recommending that the federal agency take legal action against the for-profit-college company, ITT said on Friday in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. More...
College recruiters give low-income public campuses fewer visits
By . Recruiters' patterns mean students at underserved schools may lose out in the competition for college entrance and aid, experts say The Webb Schools, a private high school in Claremont, is a magnet for college recruiters from around the country and the world. This fall, 113 Ivy League and other schools sent representatives to the campus — more than the 106 students in the senior class. At Jefferson High School, a low-income public school with 280 seniors in South Los Angeles, eight recruiters from local universities showed up. Recruiters' visits often are an important first contact for students to discover campuses far beyond their hometowns and for the colleges to discover talented applicants. More...
Full Access
By Scott Jaschik. After four years of legal battles, a hearing-impaired student has won the court order he sought to force Creighton University's medical school to provide specific accommodations that he says will allow him to succeed academically. U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp on Friday ordered Creighton to provide Michael S. Argenyi with Communication Access Real-time Transcription (CART) and sign-supported oral interpreters. Read more...
Academics Who Defend Wall St. Reap Reward
By David Kocieniewski. Signs of the energy business are inescapable in and around Houston — the pipelines, refineries and tankers that crowd the harbor, and the gleaming office towers where oil companies and energy traders have transformed the skyline. And in a squat glass building on the University of Houston campus, a measure of the industry’s pre-eminence can also be found in the person of Craig Pirrong, a professor of finance, who sits at the nexus of commerce and academia. More...
Consumer Agency May Pursue Legal Action Against For-Profit College
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has informed ITT Educational Services that the federal agency's enforcement office may urge the CFPB to "take legal action" against the for-profit higher education provider for possible violations of federal law, ITT announced in a federal tax filing Friday. In its statement, ITT, which operates more than 140 ITT Technical Institutes in 38 states, said that the consumer bureau had notified it about the potential legal action on Dec. 23. Read more...