By James L. Doti. The announcement of Sweet Briar College’s closing has sent shock waves throughout independent higher education, with some viewing this as the tip of the iceberg and expecting more closings to follow. Those concerns are well founded. An analysis of Sweet Briar’s fiscal travails and those of other colleges in similar straits suggests that Sweet Briar’s announced closing should have come as no surprise and that its situation is not an anomaly. More...
By Melvin Konner. Women are not equal to men; they are superior in many ways, and in most ways that will count in the future. It is not just a matter of culture or upbringing. It is a matter of chromosomes, genes, hormones, and nerve circuits. It is not mainly because of how experience shapes women, but because of intrinsic differences in the body and the brain. More...
The median base salaries of professional staff members on college campuses rose by 2.2 percent in 2014 — a rate of salary growth that was a tenth of a percentage point higher than the previous year, according to the results of an annual survey released on Monday by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.
The increases for academic professionals at public colleges were slightly greater than that at private institutions, at 2.3 and 2.1 percent, respectively. The figures below reflect the salaries of more than 186,000 academic professionals at 1,104 public and private colleges nationwide. A dash indicates insufficient data. View recently released survey data on the salaries of tenured and tenure-track professors at four-year colleges, and senior college administrators. More...
By Madeline Will. Even as Indiana’s governor calls for "a clarification" and "a fix" for the state’s controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act, higher education is bracing for the law’s fallout. More...
By Madeline Will. Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act has stoked national controversy and outrage since Gov. Mike Pence signed it into law, on Thursday. Meanwhile, for university leaders in the state, it’s become a public-relations nightmare. More...
By . I’m a zero-hours academic – expendable and barely acknowledged by my employer. Miliband’s proposal would mean a return to basic dignity. More...
By Phoebe Dodds. It wasn’t easy for me to turn down a place at Cambridge in favour of studying in Amsterdam. As the end of my first year approaches, however, I’m in no doubt that I made the right choice. More...
By . Labor’s Hecs scheme is the template upon which Christopher Pyne’s current university funding policy rests. Both parties are missing the mark. More...
By . It is strange for universities to treat learners as customers at a time when businesses are trying to treat customers as learners. More...
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