By Colleen Flaherty. After initially defending an article on its news service against allegations of plagiarism, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has removed the piece. “The Institute has received multiple expressions of concern regarding this article,” reads an editor’s note now in place of the article in question. “It has been withdrawn to allow further opportunity for review.” More...
By Colleen Flaherty. The Foundation for Individual Rights is challenging Polk State College’s alleged censorship of an art instructor’s anti-Trump work. In a statement Tuesday, FIRE accused the Florida college of rejecting Serhat Tanyolacar’s submission to a faculty art exhibit in an attempt to “childproof” the campus. Tanyolacar’s piece, called “Death of Innocence,” depicts poets, writers, President Trump and other political figures engaging in sexual activity. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Scholar says a new book on China’s “leftover women” fails to acknowledge her years of research in the area -- and the fact that both authors have corresponded on the topic since 2011. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. In a new report to members of the American Historical Association, Mary Beth Norton, AHA president, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, pledged action on sexual harassment -- including developing a procedure that could expel offenders from AHA events. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. No, it wasn’t satire. A poster inviting “all women who love math” to an all-male panel on the topic was widely criticized at Brigham Young University and beyond this week. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Known for his grimly humorous depictions of graduate student life in Lego blocks, and, of late, more politically charged messages, the social media figure Lego Grad Student was uncharacteristically joyful Wednesday in sharing that he’d accepted an assistant professorship (or at least his anonymous human creator had). More...
By Colleen Flaherty. How did a professor's stray email linking to an Inside Higher Ed article result in a letter of reprimand in his personnel file. More...
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Administrators grapple with campus version of #MeToo movement in which students are publicly naming others and accusing them of sexual assault. More...
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. A new study identifies the gaps between graduates' views of their skills and the views of those who hire them. More...
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. The University of Louisville’s men’s basketball team must forfeit 123 wins, including its 2013 national title, a punishment stemming from a scandal in which staffers arranged for recruits and players to be visited by sex workers. More...
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