By Paul Fain. State performance funding formulas lead to small decline in Pell revenue per student, new study finds, suggesting public colleges may be gaming formulas by enrolling fewer low-income students. Read more...
24 avril 2016
24 avril 2016
New Lens on Faculty Salaries
By Colleen Flaherty. Work at a regional public university? You'll earn more at a unionized, large urban institution, according to new analysis of faculty salaries. Read more...
24 avril 2016
Streamlining Citations
By Colleen Flaherty. In fairness to the Modern Language Association and other makers of popular academic style guides, citing sources -- if always tedious -- was once relatively straightforward: journal articles like this, books like that. Read more...
24 avril 2016
No More Men's or Women's Rooms
By Josh Logue. As North Carolina bars many transgender people from using facilities that reflect their identities, Cooper Union makes all bathrooms gender neutral. Read more...
24 avril 2016
Spoiled Milk
By Josh Logue. U of Maryland finds numerous problems related to conflicts of interest in a controversial press release about a brand of chocolate milk and treatment of concussions. Read more...
24 avril 2016
News Roundup for the Day
By Scott Jaschik. Bryn Mawr unveils environmental replacement for email platform; new university rankings system announced; a dome is missing. Read more...
24 avril 2016
The Shrinking Ph.D. Job Market
By Scott Jaschik. As number of new Ph.D.s rises, the percentage of people earning a doctorate without a job waiting for them is up. While all disciplines face the problem, some have particularly high debt levels. Read more...
24 avril 2016
Grade Inflation, Higher and Higher
By Scott Jaschik. Since the last significant release of the survey, faculty members at Princeton University and Wellesley College, among other institutions, have debated ways to limit grade inflation, despite criticism from some students who welcome the high averages. Read more...
24 avril 2016
What You Teach Is What You Earn
By Scott Jaschik. Survey finds 2.2 percent median salary increase for tenure-track faculty members at four-year colleges and universities in 2015-16, but wide variation by discipline. Read more...
24 avril 2016
Negotiations Required
By Scott Jaschik. NLRB rules that college paying adjuncts based on credit hours was required to negotiate with union before cutting the credit hours (and effectively cutting adjunct pay) of some courses. Read more...
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