By Charles Huckabee. An international committee that has reviewed the Mexican government’s handling of the case of 43 college students who went missing after their arrests during a protest nearly a year ago said in a scathing report released on Sunday that there was no evidence to support the government’s conclusion that the students had been executed by a drug gang that then incinerated their bodies. More...
By Andrew Mytelka. In the vast lobbying campaign over the safety of genetically modified foods, academic researchers are turning up on both sides of the debate, paid by biotechnology and organic agribusinesses to provide “the gloss of impartiality and weight of authority that come with a professor’s pedigree,” according to The New York Times. More...
By Andy Thomason. The for-profit Daymar College will pay out more than $1 million in response to former students’ allegations that the company deceived them, according to a copy of a proposed settlement obtained by The Courier-Journal, a newspaper in Louisville, Ky. All but $200,000 of the $1.4-million amount will be distributed to former students. More...
By Andy Thomason. The American Historical Association has published guidelines for how historians’ digital scholarship should be counted toward tenure and promotion.
According to the guidelines, scholars should be encouraged to experiment with digital scholarship, but must be prepared to explain the benefits of the digital medium to their departments. More...
By Lawrence S. Bacow and William G. Bowen. What does a small, private women’s liberal-arts college in rural Virginia have in common with a highly selective, private engineering, art, and architecture school in New York City? The answer is that the attorneys general of each state recently intervened to completely restructure the governance of both institutions — in the face of severe financial problems. More...
By Andy Thomason. Any employee will tell you that workplace meetings stink. But there is something especially rank about faculty meetings, complete with gaggles of Ph.D.s seated before a rotating cast of administrators and their jargon-laden PowerPoint slides. More...
By Goldie Blumenstyk. The White House on Saturday unveiled the new college-information website that it developed once it abandoned its ill-fated plan to rate colleges. More...
By Doug Ward. Last fall one of my sons anguished over the price of a $150 textbook for a college calculus class. He looked for a used version or a rental, to no avail. More...
By Sheila Suess Kennedy. Americans are increasingly concerned about two seemingly unrelated issues: a distressing lack of civic literacy and informed civic engagement in the general public, and the escalating burden of student-loan debt. More...
By Ry Marcattilio-McCracken. I’ve fully embraced the benefits and strictures of being a professor in the digital age. In both my online courses and live ones, I have come to rely upon our online classroom portal to disseminate course information, post reminders, log grades, and to serve as the primary method by which students turn in their papers. More...
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