By Scott Jaschik. Gathering draws students from numerous campuses who endorse a statement of principles about the value of open expression in higher education. More...
Women in Leadership Searches
By Rick Seltzer. A study presented Friday at the American Educational Research Association's annual meeting shines some light on the way women are hired for top higher education leadership positions in searches involving third-party executive search firms. More...
Gender Gaps Shrinking and Lingering
By Colleen Flaherty. New research suggests limited role for gender in predicting whether new Ph.D.s will get tenure-track jobs, but notable differences on pay and other issues, favoring men. More...
Missing Part of Free-College Push
By Andrew Kreighbaum. A proposal for a federal matching grant underlines the connection between per-student spending by institutions and degree attainment. More...
Diminishing Returns for Tuition Discounting
By Rick Seltzer. Net tuition revenue per full-time equivalent student decreased after unrestricted tuition discount rates hit 28.7 percent. More...
Not in My Classroom
By Colleen Flaherty.One of the major arguments against campus carry laws like the one imposed on Texas public universities last year is that having guns in the classroom chills academic freedom. More...
Moonlighting While Accreditation Fell Through
By Ashley A. Smith. Community college faces students upset that they can't be licensed after a professor -- fired this week -- reportedly didn't have time to deal with accreditor, despite having time to teach online at two for-profit institutions. More...
Someone Else's Words
By Carl Straumsheim. The thesaurus has long been a go-to tool for students looking to doll up their writing or even hide plagiarism. A recent study found that free online tools are helping students do so with entire paragraphs, and that the tools can fool plagiarism-detection software. More...
Coulter Changes Course
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. The controversial conservative author has decided not to speak at Berkeley, saying it would not be safe. More...
Q: Who Shouldn't Dress Up as Black Gang Members?
By Scott Jaschik. A: White religion professors, as Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary has learned. More...