By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Education Department has released proposed rules changes for its PLUS program, which provides loans to graduate students and to the parents of undergraduates who cannot pay for college through other sources of financial aid alone. According to the department, the changes would result in 370,000 more applicants’ being declared eligible for the program. More...
By Andy Thomason. As expected, the NCAA has voted to approve a series of governance changes that will give the five biggest athletic conferences more freedom to operate independently. According to an NCAA news release, the Division I Board of Directors voted, 16 to 2, to approve the new rules. More...
By Andy Thomason. A faculty committee at Princeton University released a report on Thursday examining the institution’s controversial policy that sets a limit on the number of A’s each department can give out over time. The report provides a thorough look at the effects of the policy and ultimately recommends that the university do away with the numerical targets. More...
By Andy Thomason. A North Carolina congressman has introduced a bill that would exempt student employees from part of the Affordable Care Act, the health-care overhaul often called Obamacare. More...
By Andy Thomason. A federal judge handed down a landmark legal victory for student athletes on Friday, ruling that the NCAA’s amateur model constitutes an antitrust violation by limiting the amount of revenue athletes can make off their names and likenesses. More...
By Jeffrey R. Young. People now buy songs, not albums. They read articles, not newspapers. So why not mix and match learning “modules” rather than lock into 12-week university courses?
That question is a major theme of a 213-page report released on Monday by a committee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology exploring how the 153-year-old engineering powerhouse should innovate to adapt to new technologies and new student expectations. More...
By Avi Wolfman-Arent. Facebook and academe aren’t exactly friends. Over the years, the social-media company has been the source of ethically questionable research, the purveyor of uncomfortable teacher-student interactions, and, of course, the consummate classroom distraction, scourge of lecture halls the world over. More...
By Susan J. Behrens. Applying for a fellowship recently, I was asked to respond to one of the following two prompts:
A. Describe the most significant thing about teaching that you have learned.
B. Describe your most memorable teaching moment.
I chose A, but quickly realized that the two are difficult to separate. For me they both involve a student named Carla.
Carla was an English major taking a senior-level sociolinguistics course with me to fulfill a general-education requirement. I was covering the linguistic argument that nonstandard language forms are not substandard. I’d felt resistance from her all term, yet she was doing well on exams and papers. More...
By Rachel Shteir. My first response to Belle Knox was to be thrown into my past. Knox is "the Duke University porn star," a rising sophomore infamous for entering the sex industry to pay her tuition and then turning into a meme. More than two decades ago, a friend of mine chose to leave graduate school at Yale to become a dominatrix. To me, she represented third-wave feminists’ desire to enjoy sex—even to work in the sex industry—and still be political radicals. She never spoke about her decision publicly and long ago moved on without a trace. More...
By John Villasenor. Intellectual property—patents, copyright, trademarks, trade secrets—plays a vital role in economic growth and prosperity. Yet outside of law schools, most American colleges provide little or no opportunity for students to receive any substantive instruction in it. As a result, students often graduate under the misimpression, no doubt shared by many of their professors, that IP is a topic of interest and relevance only to lawyers, with little connection to their own careers. More...
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