By Scott Jaschik. A "sizable" minority of women and a smaller but still notable share of men have experienced harassment or other inappropriate behavior at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, according to a survey of members that the association has just released. More...
By Scott Jaschik. On Thursday, he announced on Twitter that he was leaving his tenured job at Drexel. "After nearly a year of harassment by right-wing, white supremacist media outlets and internet mobs, after death threats and threats of violence directed against me and my family, my situation has become unsustainable," he wrote on Twitter. More...
By Paul Fain. Intensive college counseling provided to college-seeking, low-income students shifts their enrollment toward four-year colleges that are both relatively inexpensive and have better graduation rates than other institutions, according to a research paper published last week in Education and Finance Policy. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. The University of Warwick has walked away from plans to develop a branch campus in California, putting an end to what was arguably the most ambitious plan by a foreign university to build a branch campus in the U.S. to date. The British university originally announced plans to build a 6,000-student campus on donated land outside Sacramento in early 2015. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. A Western-style university in Russia is hamstrung as authorities keep denying its license to teach.
The European University at St. Petersburg has no students. It has no classes. The Western-style institution does not have an educational license, and Russian government authorities have so far denied its applications to regain one. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. A departmental committee told a professor he had to teach Judith Butler in his class in the name of gender balance. He refused. As for Butler, she doesn’t want her work forced on him. More...
By Nick Roll. Prison education programs are often aimed at reducing recidivism and helping prisoners find careers once they’re no longer behind bars. So what happens when a prisoner doesn’t have a release date?
In many ways, Lyle Clinton May is an ordinary Ohio University student. He has a major. He has an adviser with whom he communicates regularly. He’s pursuing a bachelor’s degree.
He’s also a convicted felon, awaiting the death penalty for a double homicide committed in 1997. More...
By Nick Roll. Paper in The French Review titled “Islamism’s Conquest of the French Republic” draws outcry, not only on charges of Islamophobia, but on its scholarly merit. An editor who joined in criticism is fired.
France’s Muslim residents might only number 8.8 percent of the country’s population, but Islamists are using the country’s values of human rights and secularism against itself, with an end goal of imposing Islamic law across the land. More...
By Ashley A. Smith. Community colleges across the country are examining possible new requirements for occupational therapy assistants to get more education, which could result in the elimination of occupational therapy programs on their campuses. More...
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