By Steve Kolowich. College administrators across the country — in Kansas, Florida, and Massachusetts — are now fighting ISIS on their campuses.By Tom Bartlett. Why Alice Dreger’s writing on sex and science makes liberals so angry.By Eboo Patel. A few weeks back, I was on a campus visit to the University of California at Los Angeles, where I first heard the story of Rachel Beyda. A pre-law sophomore, she applied for a seat on UCLA’s student Judicial Board and found her various identities an area of focus in the interview process. More...By Marc Parry. The event is billed as a lecture on a new book of social science. But the speaker visiting Cambridge’s Lesley University this Monday night sounds like a political candidate on the hustings. Robert D. Putnam — Harvard political scientist, trumpeter of community revival, consultant to the last four presidents — is on campus to sound an alarm. "What I want to talk to you about," he tells some 40 students and academics, is "the most important domestic challenge facing our country today. I want to talk about a growing gap between rich kids and poor kids." More...By Kelly Field. President Obama’s latest effort to improve student lending has a catchy-sounding name — the Student Aid Bill of Rights — and it’s garnering praise from consumer advocates and Congressional Democrats.By Kelly Field. In a speech he’s scheduled to give on Tuesday at the Georgia Institute of Technology, President Obama will announce a Student Aid Bill of Rights and sign a presidential memorandum directing federal agencies to take steps to help borrowers repay their debt. More...By Peter Schmidt. A new tentative labor agreement between New York University and its graduate employees’ union is being hailed by the organizers of such workers at other private universities as both a landmark victory for their labor movement and, in at least one case, a potential template for their own future demands. More...
By Julie Henry. A pay increase for university vice-chancellors of nearly 60% in the last two decades cannot be justified by their performance in the job, research suggests. University heads have seen their salaries soar during recent years to an average of £260,000, with some receiving packages worth more than £400,000 a year. Read more...By Daniel Hurst. Australian universities’ use of student funding for projects that boost their global rankings raises questions over how they would spend deregulation windfall. Read more...By Abby Young-Powell. More than three quarters of students and graduates with a disability feel they will be discriminated against by employers, a survey shows. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
