By Maxine Joselow. With June marking LGBT Pride Month, one university is paying particular attention to the T in LGBT. The University of Arizona is planning to host an international transgender studies conference this fall and launch a transgender studies master’s program as early as fall 2017. Read more...
Pride and Silence
By Maxine Joselow. While Wellesley College points with pride to alumna Hillary Clinton, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania stays largely silent about alumnus Donald Trump. Read more...
No Math Required
By Maxine Joselow. Wayne State University drops what has been part of its general-education program for all students, raising the question of which fields are needed by all undergraduates. Read more...
Safeguarding Free Speech
By Maxine Joselow. City University of New York is considering a new policy that it says will protect academic freedom, but some fear it could be used to squelch dissent. Read more...
Shrinking Job Security
By Maxine Joselow. After the State College of Florida replaced a tenure-like system with three-year contracts for all new faculty members, some complained. So the board shifted to one-year contracts. Read more...
Final Push for State Authorization Rule
By Carl Straumsheim. Education Department will push to finalize rule on state approval of online programs before the end of the year. Read more...
New Hampshire System Plans Open Education Push
By Carl Straumsheim. The University System of New Hampshire is launching a yearlong open education initiative to promote affordable textbooks, collaboration and open-access publishing. Read more...
Communications Experts Criticize Elsevier-Florida Pilot
By Carl Straumsheim. The publisher and the university last month announced a pilot that would link UF's institutional repository of scholarly work to Elsevier's ScienceDirect platform, giving subscribers to Elsevier's journals access to articles by UF authors. Read more...
When Data Don't Fit the Box
By Carl Straumsheim. Colleges that accommodate transgender students by letting them choose preferred names and pronouns find their efforts hindered by out-of-date software and federal reporting requirements. Read more...
FutureLearn Adds For-Credit MOOCs
By Carl Straumsheim. FutureLearn, the online learning platform owned by the Open University in the U.K., now offers massive open online courses that award academic credit. Read more...