By Scott Jaschik. Columbia University has become the latest institution to release a report detailing the role of slavery in its history. Read more...
17 février 2017
17 février 2017
‘Trans* in College’
By Scott Jaschik. College Student Educators International is currently raising money to send a copy of Z Nicolazzo’s new book to every member of the Texas Legislature. The book is Trans* in College: Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion (Stylus). Read more...
17 février 2017
Swastika Chalked on Statue of Founder of Rice
By Scott Jaschik. Over the weekend, swastika graffiti appeared and unnerved people in Chicago, Houston and New York City. In Houston, the incident was on the campus of Rice University, where someone chalked a swastika and "Trump" on a statue of the university's founder, The Houston Chronicle reported. Read more...
17 février 2017
ProQuest Helps Researchers Affected by Travel Ban
By Carl Straumsheim. Library service provider ProQuest is opening its databases to researchers or students unable to enter the U.S. because of President Trump's temporarily suspended travel ban. Read more...
17 février 2017
The British MOOC Invasion
By Carl Straumsheim. FutureLearn, the massive open online course provider owned by the Open University in the U.K., expands to the U.S. Read more...
17 février 2017
Yik Yak's Successor: A Group Messaging App?
By Carl Straumsheim. The company behind the anonymous messaging app Yik Yak is betting on group messaging to capture the interests of college students, according to The Verge. Read more...
17 février 2017
Study: How Much Do University Presses Publish?
By Carl Straumsheim. University presses in the U.S. publish an estimated 15,000 books a year, about 3,000 of which are primary monographs in the humanities, according to a report that attempts to quantify that segment of the scholarly publishing market. Read more...
17 février 2017
VitalSource to Acquire Verba
By Carl Straumsheim. VitalSource, which provides digital content delivery products and services, on Wednesday said it intends to acquire Verba, a San Francisco-based start-up. Read more...
17 février 2017
Ellucian Ends Support for Competency-Based Education Platform
By Carl Straumsheim. Ellucian is ending support for Brainstorm, its competency-based education platform, less than two years after it acquired the platform (then known as Helix Education). Read more...
17 février 2017
GoFundMe Releases Data on College Crowdfunding
By Carl Straumsheim. Faculty members, students and parents have launched over 130,000 fund-raising campaigns, collected donations from over 850,000 people and raised more than $60 million on the crowdfunding site GoFundMe since 2014. Read more...
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