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4 décembre 2016

In the Line of Fire

HomeBy Jake New. After killing of Wayne State officer and attack at Ohio State, campus police reflect on dangers of the job. Read more...

4 décembre 2016

What’s in a Name?

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. Since the election, leaders of dozens of colleges and universities across the country have faced protests and petition drives calling on them to declare their institutions “sanctuary campuses” for undocumented immigrant students. Read more...

4 décembre 2016

Catholic College Presidents Defend Undocumented Students

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. About 80 member presidents of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities have signed a statement in support of students who have benefited from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, under which more than 700,000 young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children have gained temporary protection from deportation and two-year renewable work permits. Read more...

4 décembre 2016

Uncertainty on Cuba

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. Trump’s comments on possibly undoing U.S.-Cuba “deal” in wake of Fidel Castro’s death cast uncertainty about future of educational exchanges with island nation, which have been on the rise. Read more...

4 décembre 2016

Soyinka Throws Out Green Card to Protest Trump

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. A Nigerian-born Nobel-prize winning author who has taught at Cornell, Harvard and Yale Universities has thrown away his green card in protest of Donald J. Trump’s election win, The Independent reported. Wole Soyinka was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1986. Read more...

4 décembre 2016

College Board's New Process for Accommodations

HomeBy Scott Jaschik. The College Board on Thursday announced a new process for people with disabilities to request test accommodations. Read more...

4 décembre 2016

Fighting to Make City College of San Francisco Free

HomeBy Scott Jaschik. San Francisco officials are engaged in a major political battle over whether the city can end tuition charges at City College of San Francisco, The San Francisco Examiner reported. Read more...

4 décembre 2016

Law School Gender Gaps

HomeBy Scott Jaschik. A new report documents unequal patterns involving gender in law school enrollments -- patterns that relate to employment prospects after law school. Read more...

4 décembre 2016

University Presses' Postelection Reading Lists

HomeBy Scott Jaschik. Several university presses are offering postelection reading lists for those trying to make sense of the election results and the divisiveness present in much of the country. Here are the lists offered by the University of California Press, as well as by Oxford, Princeton and Yale University Presses. Read more...

4 décembre 2016

Gains and Losses in R&D

HomeBy Scott Jaschik. The National Science Foundation last week released its annual report on the top universities in total research and development expenditures. Read more...

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