By Scott Jaschik. A new report by Joni Finney of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education offers state-by-state comparisons on postsecondary educational opportunity. More...
23 juillet 2018
23 juillet 2018
Protest at Yale Law on Supreme Court Nominee
By Scott Jaschik. Many students and alumni of Yale University's law school are circulating a petition denouncing the way the law school issued a press release on President Trump's nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. More...
23 juillet 2018
Will Trump Change the Way Colleges Seek Diversity?
By Scott Jaschik. Most experts don't expect admissions efforts to diminish, but many say outcome of a key court case could have a big impact. More...
23 juillet 2018
Cambridge Criticized for Hiring Anti-Gay Scholar
By Scott Jaschik. The University of Cambridge, in Britain, is being criticized for hiring Aron Wall, currently a postdoc at Stanford University's Institute for Theoretical Physics, for a position teaching mathematics, starting in January, The Cambridge News reported. More...
23 juillet 2018
Scholars Decry Arrest of Ph.D. Student in Egypt
By Scott Jaschik. The Middle East Studies Association has sent a letter to Egyptian authorities protesting the detention and arrest in Cairo of Waleed Khalil el-Sayed Salem, a University of Washington Ph.D. student. The association's letter states that Salem was conducting important research at the time on the interaction of judges and lawyers in Egypt. More...
23 juillet 2018
Extra Points for Being Nice
By Scott Jaschik. Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business is trying a new approach. Last month, it announced that it would henceforth look for applicants who possess four qualities: smart, nice, accomplished and aware. Most of the attention on Tuck's list has centered on the quality of being nice -- not necessarily something associated with the cutthroat world of M.B.A. students or the business world. More...
23 juillet 2018
Princeton and Stanford Drop SAT/ACT Writing Test
By Scott Jaschik. Princeton will now require applicants to submit a graded writing sample. Only 23 colleges now require the test. More...
23 juillet 2018
Report on Censorship of Art on Campus
By Scott Jaschik. "One Man's Vulgarity" is the name of a report being issued today by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education on censorship of art on campus. More...
23 juillet 2018
British University Defends Scholarships for Refugees
By Scott Jaschik. The University of Reading, in Britain, is attracting much praise for its response to those questioning its decision to offer 14 scholarships for refugees in the area. More...
23 juillet 2018
New Statement on Women and Computer Science
By Scott Jaschik. An instructor at the University of Washington set off a major debate there and elsewhere over his recent essay in which he says that the low proportion of women in computer science is at this point largely a result of women's choices and is unlikely to change. University officials immediately disputed his claims. More...
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