By Scott Jaschik. Large and growing gaps in SAT scores, by race and ethnicity, are nothing new. The College Board and educators alike have acknowledged these gaps and offered a variety of explanations, with a focus on the gaps in family income (on average) and the resources at high schools that many minority students attend. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. The choice of a single textbook for one section of a course at one university might seem like a decidedly local issue. But a dispute over whether an academic department may impose such a selection on all faculty members in a multisection course has set off a large debate over how textbook choices should be evaluated, who should select textbooks, whether price should be a factor, and academic freedom. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. Just why do many students want to live off campus? And does this desire in any way reflect on their morals. Read more...
By Chronicle Staff. Reports: “Gender and the Occupations of Humanities Majors” and “Effects of Gender on the Earnings of Humanities Majors”
Organization: The Humanities Indicators project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Summary: Men and women who earned degrees in the humanities have notable differences in their earnings and post-college occupations, according to two reports released on Monday by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More...
By Peter Schmidt. Midwestern State University, in Texas, has offered to retrofit office doors there with peepholes in response to faculty members’ safety concerns arising from campus shootings elsewhere, The Wichitan, a student-run newspaper, reports. More...
By Charles Huckabee. One student was shot dead and another wounded after gunfire erupted early Sunday near dormitories at Winston-Salem State University, in North Carolina, according to reports by the Associated Press and a local newspaper, the Winston-Salem Journal. The city police were searching for a suspected gunman, who was not believed to be a student. More...
By Andy Thomason. A federal judge in California has dismissed a lawsuit that the company behind the for-profit Ivy Bridge College filed against the accreditor that shut down the institution. According to the ruling, by Judge Samuel Conti of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Ivy Bridge filed the suit in the wrong jurisdiction, as the company is based in California but the accreditor, the Higher Learning Commission, is not. More...
By Andy Thomason. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has filed suit against Global Financial Support Inc., alleging it made millions of dollars by charging students and parents sham fees for nonexistent financial-aid services. More...
By Andy Thomason. Total private giving to institutions of higher education, public and private, grew again in 2014, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Philanthropy 400 project, which tracks giving to the 400 largest nonprofit organizations in the United States. More...
By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Department of Education has unveiled two sets of final regulations governing its expanded income-based repayment program and efforts to rein in banks’ deals with colleges. More...
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