By Ben Yagoda. Humility is always a good thing. I got a dose of it recently, courtesy of a BuzzFeed article posted to Facebook by a friend of mine, Siobhan Wagner, a journalist who was born in the U.S, but has been living in London for nine years. The article was called “Americans On Tumblr Are Trying To Find Out What A ‘Cheeky Nando’s’ Is And Are Struggling” and concerned a meme that had become popular in England. More...
By Allan Metcalf. There are bad spellers, and then there are really bad spellers. Most of the time when we gripe about bad spellers we mean the first kind, who are actually for the most part pretty good. More...
By William Germano. At Cannes recently, the actor Matthew McConaughey spoke out on the negative response to Gus Van Sant’s new film, The Sea of Trees.
“Anyone has as much right to boo as they have to ovate,” the actor observed. More...
By Chronicle Staff. Report: “Broadening Horizons: The Value of the Overseas Experience”
Organization: British Council
Summary: As colleges seek to give more students an international experience, the council, Britain’s educational and cultural-relations agency, examined perceived barriers to studying abroad. It surveyed 4,625 American students about their views on studying in another country. More...
By Lawrence Biemiller. Michael J. LaCour, the UCLA graduate student accused of faking research for a paper about gay marriage that was published in Science in December, sent the Los Angeles Times a 23-page email Friday that calls his critics “unethical” and says he destroyed data supporting the paper’s findings because UCLA’s privacy policy required him to do so. Science retracted the paper Thursday. More...
By Ian Wilhelm. After nearly 800 years, the University of Oxford has named its first female vice chancellor, reports The Telegraph. Louise Richardson, currently the principal of Scotland’s University of St. Andrews, will succeed Andrew Hamilton as Oxford’s vice chancellor, a position equivalent to a university president in the United States. More...
By Andy Thomason. After Laura Kipnis, a professor in the department of radio, television, and film at Northwestern University, wrote the provocative essay “Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe” earlier this year in The Chronicle Review, students marched in protest. More...
By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics on Wednesday released its annual report on the condition of American education. Included in the many-paged report are facts and figures encompassing higher, secondary, and elementary education. Among other things, the report notes that total enrollment in postsecondary education declined from 2012-13 to 2013-14, the number of master’s degrees awarded dropped from 2011-12 to 2012-13, and the average net price at four-year public institutions increased that same year. More...
By Andy Thomason. A judge has thrown out a group of for-profit colleges’ challenge to the U.S. Department of Education’s gainful-employment rule, Reuters reports. The lawsuit was one of two filed last year in response to the department’s final rule, which seeks to judge career-oriented programs on their graduates’ ability to repay their student loans. More...
By Andy Thomason. Ashworth College, a for-profit institution in Georgia, has agreed to a settle a complaint by the Federal Trade Commission that it misrepresented how well its degrees would prepare students to earn licenses in specific vocations, and the ease with which students could transfer Ashworth credits to other institutions. More...
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