By Doug Lederman. The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation has weathered more than its fair share of turbulence in its few years in existence, perhaps the inevitable result of its origins (a merger between two unequal and competing accreditors) and its mission (tougher standards in a field long criticized for settling for lesser ones). That the organization has accomplished what it has, let alone survived at all, is arguably a victory. Read more...
By Chronicle Staff. Report: “studentPOLL”
Organizations: Art & Science Group and ACT
Summary: The latest iteration of “studentPOLL” asked a national sample of college-bound students who had taken the ACT about paying for college. The survey was conducted in February, after students had applied to college but before most admissions and financial-aid decisions had been made. More...
By Brock Read. As it announced a plan on Monday to forgive the debt incurred by many former students of Corinthian Colleges, the U.S. Department of Education promised reforms that could make it easier for other students who feel they have been defrauded by colleges to seek loan forgiveness. More...
By Goldie Blumenstyk. The letters that passed between the 19th-century poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning are renowned for their lyrical expressions of mutual love. The much-more-recent correspondence between U.S. Sen. Richard J. Durbin and executives of ITT Educational Services? Not so much. More...
By Sarah Brown. Barnard College announced on Thursday that it would join the fast-growing number of women’s colleges with clarified admissions policies for transgender students. More...
By Andy Thomason. Often lost in the conversation about campus sexual assault are the voices of victims — both male and female.
A new project by The Washington Post features those voices prominently. A new page on the Post’s website, with short features on 50 victims of sexual assault, is part of the project. More...
By Andy Thomason. Two-thirds of tenured faculty members age 50 or older plan to work past the age of 67, a survey by the TIAA-CREF Institute has found. More...
By Andy Thomason. Earlier this week the biochemist Richard T. (Tim) Hunt unleashed the following monologue to an unsuspecting audience at a journalism conference in South Korea:
Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab: You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them they cry.
Since he made those remarks, which prompted Mr. Hunt to apologize and resign from an honorary professorship at University College London, women in the lab have added a fourth item to the list of things they do: mock Mr. Hunt on Twitter. More...
By Andy Thomason. Maybe the paleontologist Caleb M. Brown wanted to give his acknowledgments section some extra spice. See if you can spot the anomaly in the fine print of a recent paper, “A New Horned Dinosaur Reveals Convergent Evolution in Cranial Ornamentation in Ceratopsidae,” that he co-wrote in the journal Current Biology. More...
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