By Elizabeth Redden. About 180,000 students worldwide are enrolled in international branch campuses, according to highlights released from a forthcoming report by the Observatory on Borderless Education and the Cross-Border Education Research Team (C-BERT) at the State University of New York at Albany. Read more...
By Elizabeth Redden. The founding president of a new network of nine research universities in Europe says the member institutions are united by “the conviction that there is no trade-off between research excellence by global standards, broad access for students and an inclusive academic environment and societal impact in research, teaching and outreach.” Read more...
By Elizabeth Redden. A Reuters investigation details how a Chinese company accused by multiple ex-employees of application fraud "bought access" to U.S. admissions officers. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Study suggests that language recommendation writers use to describe women may disadvantage them as job candidates, portraying them as less dynamic and excellent than male counterparts. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. At a time when graduate schools are under pressure to produce more minority Ph.D.s, surveys at Yale and Michigan show the challenges facing nonwhite doctoral students. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. Bob Dylan was this morning named winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. The announcement said he was honored for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
The notes on Dylan released by the Nobel committee state, "Besides his large production of albums, Dylan has published experimental work like Tarantula (1971) and the collection Writings and Drawings (1973). He has written the autobiography Chronicles (2004), which depicts memories from the early years in New York and which provides glimpses of his life at the center of popular culture. Since the late 1980s, Bob Dylan has toured persistently, an undertaking called the 'Never-Ending Tour.' Dylan has the status of an icon. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. Many colleges and universities are paying to promote their posts on social media, according to a new report by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Huron, and mStoner Inc. Among the findings, based on a survey of schools, colleges and universities. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. Author discusses his new book about how administrators can lead colleges with "mindfulness and self-compassion" -- and the right emotions. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. SAGE Publishing is today releasing a white paper with the results of a survey of more than 9,000 social scientists around the world on their use of big data. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. In an academic year that has already seen numerous racist incidents, three more institutions are dealing with blackface images posted to social media by students. Read more...
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