By Michael Stratford. A federal judge in Massachusetts this week issued a mixed ruling in a case challenging tougher regulations on for-profit colleges enacted by that state’s attorney general. Read more...
11 février 2016
11 février 2016
Employers as Accreditors
By Paul Fain. Businesses should have a stronger voice in accreditation, while also developing their own alternative to the process, say the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and USA Funds. Read more...
11 février 2016
In Giving to Colleges, the One Percenters Gain
By Doug Lederman. As charitable donations to higher education soar to a new record high, the richest institutions continue to distance themselves from the rest. Read more...
11 février 2016
Endowments Fall to Earth
By Ellen Wexler. After two years of healthy growth, colleges' endowment investment return rates fell in 2015. While they didn't come close to the declines of some years in the past decade, the average rate is the lowest reported since 2012. Read more...
11 février 2016
Feds Act Against DeVry
By Ashley A. Smith. Federal Trade Commission alleges the for-profit university misled students about their employment and income prospects, and Education Department seeks to stop DeVry from making deceptive advertisements. Read more...
11 février 2016
Where's the Evidence?
By Scott Jaschik. The pendulum swings quite a bit on the issue of asking applicants to colleges about their disciplinary records and criminal backgrounds. Read more...
11 février 2016
NSF Tells Universities to Prevent Harassment
By Scott Jaschik. The National Science Foundation this week issued a statement calling on the colleges and universities that receive its grants to do a better job of preventing and dealing with harassment in science -- and the agency has warned that it would terminate funding to institutions that do not take required steps to prevent and deal with harassment. Read more...
11 février 2016
Tenure vs. Enrollment
By Josh Logue. Eight tenure letters went out last week at Lake Superior State University, a small public university in Michigan. Three were denials, and of those three, at least two cited declining enrollment as the sole reason the recipient would not be recommended for tenure. Read more...
il faudrait commencer brièvement par une histoire : au commencement, il y avait la possibilité de tout faire, y compris de se passer d'un système de représentation collégial et démocratique
11 février 2016
'Changing the Face of Engineering'
By Josh Logue. Editor discusses new book about the history of and outlook for African-American engineers. Read more...
11 février 2016
Investigating Sexual Assault, Regionally
By Jake New. State of Virginia has proposed a pilot program that would create a regional center for investigating cases of campus sexual violence. Read more...
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