By Scott Jaschik. Study finds positive impact on graduates’ life experiences, including leadership, civic-mindedness … and financial success. Read more...
The Price Women Pay for Co-Authorship
By Scott Jaschik. Study of economics faculty members finds that men get credit where women do not. Read more...
Chinese Company Accused of Fraud Withdraws From Project to Combat Fraud
By Elizabeth Redden. A Chinese company that was the subject of a Reuters investigation into application fraud has withdrawn from a multi-university project focused on verification of Chinese student transcripts, the news agency reported. Read more...
Student Government Leaders Call on Trump to Continue DACA
By Elizabeth Redden. More than 50 student government presidents have signed a letter to President Trump asking him to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, under which more than 700,000 young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, many of them now college students, have obtained the right to work and temporary protection from deportation. Read more...
Report on Effects of Brexit on Foreign Enrollments
By Elizabeth Redden. British universities stand to lose tuition income if students from European Union countries are required to pay higher fees in line with those paid by students from outside Europe, according to a new analysis released by the Higher Education Policy Institute, a U.K.-based think tank, and Kaplan International Pathways, an international student recruiting and services company. Read more...
The Changing English Major
By Elizabeth Redden. Amid enrollment declines, speakers at Modern Language Association discuss shifts in the major, such as a de-emphasis of traditional survey and the addition of more writing-related courses. Read more...
‘No Certificate of Global Citizenship’
By Elizabeth Redden. Amid turn toward nationalism, global educators consider their work. Read more...
Visa Denied
By Elizabeth Redden. Georgetown graduate student who studies migrant labor issues is denied visa to study at university's campus in Qatar, raising academic freedom concerns. Read more...
Consistent Punishment
By Jake New. New study finds that penalties for breaking NCAA rules are largely consistent across conference membership -- and that men's basketball and football account for the vast majority of violations. Read more...
Trying Again on Time Demands
By Jake New. At NCAA meeting, Division I and the Power Five conferences will take a second shot at legislation limiting time demands on athletes. Divisions II and III expect to adopt new rules giving “unchallengeable authority” to physicians on when athletes should play after concussions. Read more...