By Scott Jaschik. A controversial speech at the University of Connecticut Tuesday night ended up in chaos, with students in the audience shouting at the speaker and the speaker arrested over an altercation with an audience member who appeared to take his notes. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Diet Cig, a pop-punk band (at right), has called off a scheduled appearance this week at Messiah College, citing the college's rules that say gay people may not act on same-sex orientations. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Students at the University of Michigan walked out of classes Wednesday to protest the institution's willingness to allow Richard Spencer, a white supremacist, speak on campus, MLive reported. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Help select the top university press book of 2017 that would make a good holiday gift for someone in academe. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Hartwick, a private institution where three-quarters of enrollees are from New York State, seeks to counter impact of free public tuition. More...
By Scott Jaschik. High schools in Georgia see surge in enrollments in computer science, and state leaders are pleased. But are those courses equivalent, as university system admissions requirements now say, to Spanish or French. More...
By Scott Jaschik. A federal judge has awarded the Federal Trade Commission an injunction to block what the FTC considers deceptive publishing practices by OMICS Group and other entities. More...
By Scott Jaschik. American University of Beirut announced Friday that it is restoring graduate assistantships to a group of graduate students who had their assistantships withdrawn because of their participation in recent protests. More...
By Scott Jaschik. A high school in Tennessee, backed by local politicians, isn’t accepting explanations for why scores on test taken in good faith shouldn’t count. More...
By Holly Else for Times Higher Education. Zimbabwe’s universities must shed politically tainted leaders and rediscover academic freedom in order to fix the damage done to the country’s higher education system by Robert Mugabe, according to researchers who fled his brutal regime. More...
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