By Andy Thomason. Twitter. It’s great for yelling at airlines, executing flawless DM slides, and keeping tabs on the Republican presidential debates after promising yourself you wouldn’t turn on the TV. But can it be used for good?
It depends on whom you follow. On the occasion of Twitter’s 10th birthday, I asked others here at The Chronicle as well as my Twitter followers to name that one tweeter in academe whom they just can’t live without. More...
By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Education Department has cleared the way for former students at 91 campuses once owned by the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges to have their loan debt forgiven, the department announced on Friday. More...
By Charles Huckabee. Gov. Matthew G. Bevin of Kentucky on Thursday ordered state officials to cut the quarterly funding allotment that the state is scheduled to send out to universities and colleges on Friday by 4.5 percent, The Courier-Journal reports. More...
By Courtney Kueppers. Using white and yellow chalk, someone scrawled “Trump,” “Vote Trump,” and “Trump 2016″ around Emory University’s Atlanta campus on Monday. Some students responded by holding a protest of Donald J. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, which prompted the university president, James W. Wagner, to issue a statement on the “unexpected chalkings”. More...By Rio Fernandes. A Tennessee lawmaker’s bill aimed at protecting free speech on public-college campuses was withdrawn from consideration after its author said the bill would extend to everyone, even recruiters for the Islamic State, the Associated Press reported. More...
By Charles Huckabee. Federal investigators have concluded that the freshman who stabbed four people at the University of California at Merced last fall before he was shot to death by the campus police was “self-radicalized” and inspired by ISIS, but was not connected to organized terror groups, the Merced Sun-Star reported. More...
By Courtney Kueppers. Report: “Rising Tide II: Do Black Students Benefit as Grad Rates Increase?”Authors: Andrew Howard Nichols, Kimberlee Eberle-Sudré, and Meredith WelchBy Brock Read. Should students who say they’ve been defrauded by their colleges be guaranteed a chance to take their cases to court? When the U.S. Department of Education said recently that they should, advocates for student borrowers were encouraged. But now, after three days of negotiations over a rule intended to protect those borrowers, it’s still unclear whether such a guarantee will take shape. More...
By Charles Huckabee. A bus carrying university exchange students crashed on a highway in the Catalonia region of northeastern Spain on Sunday, killing at least 13 passengers and injuring 34 others, the Associated Press reported. More...
By Courtney Kueppers. A rising level of debt among law students has led to increased stress and anxiety among them, says a report released on Monday. More...
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