By Scott Jaschik. The University of New Hampshire announced Monday that it will go test optional in admissions for the next three years to test the idea. More colleges in recent years have gone test optional, including institutions like New Hampshire that are large public universities. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Georgetown has declined to say what it is doing about individual students admitted fraudulently but has said the university is "reviewing the details related to the indictment and will be taking appropriate action". More...
By Scott Jaschik. Kendrick Castillo, who was killed in this week's school shooting in Colorado, died trying to protect others, The Denver Post reported. He was set to attend Arapahoe Community College in the fall, where his father said he hoped to major in mechanical or electrical engineering. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Dozens of students have been protesting for several days in the lawn outside the president's office at Princeton University, calling for a series of changes in the way the university responds to allegations of sexual assault. The students say that the university's procedures are inadequate for those who are victims of assault. Among the demands are the dismissal of one administrator and a review of the performance of another. More...
By Ashley A. Smith. Hudson Valley Community College plans to offer classes overseas in an effort to stabilize enrollment and keep faculty employed. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. University library exhibit included photos of students from the 1920s in blackface. Now the library director is suspended -- and some of her faculty colleagues say Doane made the wrong call. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Yale University’s ethnicity, race and migration program was granted permanent institutional status, Alicia Schmidt Camacho, chair, announced last week. Earlier this year, the program’s 13 tenured faculty members withdrew their labor from it over concerns about insufficient resources and broken promises about autonomy. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. With the help of an anonymous donor, MIT Press formed a new fund to grow its publications list by women and other underrepresented groups in science, technology, math and engineering fields. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Georgia cleared Irami Osei-Frimpong, a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy, of violations of university policy following an investigation into his comments on race and disclosure issues in his graduate school application. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. AAUP investigation finds Vermont Law School violated shared governance norms when it suddenly stripped tenure from most of its faculty. More...
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