By Elizabeth Redden. A Reuters investigation details how a Chinese company accused by multiple ex-employees of application fraud "bought access" to U.S. admissions officers. Read more...
21 octobre 2016
21 octobre 2016
Damning With Faint Praise
By Colleen Flaherty. Study suggests that language recommendation writers use to describe women may disadvantage them as job candidates, portraying them as less dynamic and excellent than male counterparts. Read more...
21 octobre 2016
Feeling Isolated and Excluded
By Colleen Flaherty. At a time when graduate schools are under pressure to produce more minority Ph.D.s, surveys at Yale and Michigan show the challenges facing nonwhite doctoral students. Read more...
21 octobre 2016
Bob Dylan Wins Nobel in Literature
By Scott Jaschik. Bob Dylan was this morning named winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. The announcement said he was honored for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
The notes on Dylan released by the Nobel committee state, "Besides his large production of albums, Dylan has published experimental work like Tarantula (1971) and the collection Writings and Drawings (1973). He has written the autobiography Chronicles (2004), which depicts memories from the early years in New York and which provides glimpses of his life at the center of popular culture. Since the late 1980s, Bob Dylan has toured persistently, an undertaking called the 'Never-Ending Tour.' Dylan has the status of an icon. Read more...
21 octobre 2016
Colleges Pay to Play on Social Media
By Scott Jaschik. Many colleges and universities are paying to promote their posts on social media, according to a new report by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Huron, and mStoner Inc. Among the findings, based on a survey of schools, colleges and universities. Read more...
21 octobre 2016
'Dancing in the Rain'
By Scott Jaschik. Author discusses his new book about how administrators can lead colleges with "mindfulness and self-compassion" -- and the right emotions. Read more...
21 octobre 2016
Social Science, Collaboration and Big Data
By Scott Jaschik. SAGE Publishing is today releasing a white paper with the results of a survey of more than 9,000 social scientists around the world on their use of big data. Read more...
21 octobre 2016
More Blackface Incidents Involving Students
By Scott Jaschik. In an academic year that has already seen numerous racist incidents, three more institutions are dealing with blackface images posted to social media by students. Read more...
21 octobre 2016
'Our Compelling Interests'
By Scott Jaschik. In new collection of essays, scholars make the case for diversity as essential to higher education and society generally. Read more...
21 octobre 2016
3 Share Nobel Prize in Physics
By Scott Jaschik. Three researchers at American universities were this morning named winners of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics. Half of the award goes to David J. Thouless of the University of Washington. The other half is shared by F. Duncan M. Haldane of Princeton University and J. Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University. Read more...
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