By Doug Lederman. The Academic Minute, the daily podcast profiling intriguing research from scholars around the country, has selected the top episodes of 2017. You can listen to them (again, we hope) here, on the following topics: abusive bosses and defensive silence, liberal education, smartphone addiction, diet sodas and accelerated brain aging, and science papers and storytelling. More...
By Doug Lederman. The nonprofit New Media Consortium stunned many academics and educational technology partisans Monday by announcing via email that it was shutting down immediately. The email blamed the closure, insolvency and Chapter 7 bankruptcy on what it called "apparent errors and omissions by its former controller and chief financial officer." More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. House and Senate negotiators release final details of tax reform agreement expected to win approval. Plus a list of colleges likely to face new tax. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Department's decision is major departure from Obama administration, which provided full relief for approved claims. Advocates for students say policy provides inadequate help and creates confusion. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Senate parliamentarian ruled Tuesday ahead of a vote on the Republican tax reform plan that three provisions of the bill -- including one taxing the endowments of private colleges but exempting Berea College -- violate the chamber's rules. The Senate went on to pass the bill without those provisions. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. In a commencement address to University of Baltimore graduates Monday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos praised the institution for shaping its programs to what students want and need and "not the other way around." But her speech was greeted with protests by graduates themselves, with many standing and turning their backs during the address. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Malaise, slump, deadwood -- there are lots of words for what supposedly happens to professors’ research outputs after tenure. A forthcoming study in the Journal of Economic Perspectives doesn’t use any of those terms and explicitly says it must not be read as an “indictment” of tenure. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. Study finds that men speak twice as often as women do at colloquiums, a difference that can't be explained away by rank, speaker pool composition or women's interest in giving talks. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Pittsburgh plans to investigate the climate in its communications department after a former professor wrote an essay alleging sexual harassment and hostility by colleagues. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. A new TIAA analysis of 12 years of federal and other data from 1,200 institutions finds that increased hiring of professors off the tenure track has had no significant effect on enrollment. More...
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