Steven Pinker's aid in Jeffrey Epstein's legal defense renews criticism of an increasingly divisive public intellectual. | Continue reading
A professor wonders whether the classroom has become an unsafe space for the faculty. | Continue reading
Colleges hire more minority and female professors, but most jobs filled are adjunct, not tenure track, study finds. | Continue reading
He may be well-meaning, but Bill Gates is bad for education. | Continue reading
CodePath.org, a nonprofit boot camp, offers ready-made, industry-approved coding courses to colleges and trains students to teach them for credit. | Continue reading
Citing unsustainable price increases, leaders at Louisiana State University have decided to walk away from their comprehensive subscription deal with Elsevier. | Continue reading
High school student newspaper editors take a stand against the wrong kind of college success. | Continue reading
Many wonderful colleges can give students an excellent education, argues Katherine Maloney, as well as provide opportunities for Ph.D. graduates to grow as teachers and scholars. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence that reads journal articles and highlights key findings could help researchers stay on top of the latest research. But the technology isn’t ready for prime time. | Continue reading
New study of computer scientists says that when it comes to research output, where Ph.D.s get hired matters more than where they trained. | Continue reading
Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education will combine to create one giant education publisher focused on digital content. Observers aren’t convinced that’s a good thing for students. | Continue reading
Students and others demand her dismissal because of statements on Me Too and on transgender people. | Continue reading
The Couperin consortium, which represents 240 higher education and research institutes in France, has renewed its bundled journal subscription deal with Elsevier, the publisher. The consortium’s decision is noteworthy because other large European consortia recently have gone in t … | Continue reading
Wisconsin campus that became the poster child for gutting liberal arts disciplines won't make those cuts after all. | Continue reading
A question in need of being asked. | Continue reading
A student believed he was hacked when all of his classes were mysteriously dropped. But what actually happened is more complicated. | Continue reading
Following in the footsteps of linguistics journal Lingua, the editorial board of the Elsevier-owned Journal of Informetrics has resigned and launched a rival journal that will be free for all to read. | Continue reading
Understanding New Jersey. | Continue reading
Author of a recent academic scam faces disciplinary action by Portland State, for failing to alert his research review board before hoodwinking journal editors with outrageous articles. Many say he's guilty of bad form, but did he commit misconduct? | Continue reading
University of California System is playing hardball with Elsevier in negotiations that could transform the way it pays to read and publish research. But does the UC system have the clout to pull it off? | Continue reading
University of California System is playing hardball with Elsevier in negotiations that could transform the way it pays to read and publish research. But does the UC system have the clout to pull it off? | Continue reading
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio wrote to four Florida colleges and universities Monday asking them to close their Confucius Institutes, centers of Chinese language and cultural education that are housed in U.S. colleges or schools and funded and staffed by a Chinese government entity. O … | Continue reading
Students in a Baylor University class weren't sleeping enough. Their professor offered them extra credit if they got eight hours of sleep or more -- and they performed better on final exams than their peers. | Continue reading
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is paying $424,000 to protect itself in case of a falloff. | Continue reading
Are alumni benefits the killer app of nondegree programs from elite schools? | Continue reading
Postdoctoral researchers and associate research scientists at Columbia University voted to form a union affiliated with the United Auto Workers by a 2-to-1 margin, they announced Thursday. Their contract would be the first for postdocs at any private institution. Columbia, which … | Continue reading
How digital learning concentrates higher ed privilege. | Continue reading
Using your lack of knowledge to propel you into taking on new projects. | Continue reading
Editors of book series stop publishing with Springer Nature to protest its acquiescence to Chinese government censorship demands. | Continue reading
Study finds that when white people are told of the success of Asian applicants, their commitment to basing admissions on grades and test scores drops. | Continue reading
A new documentary film taking aim at for-profit publishers is about to be screened at universities around the world, but will it further the goals of the open-access movement? | Continue reading
It's not a concept for a sitcom -- UC Santa Cruz is so strapped for space it is asking faculty and staff to open their homes for students to rent. | Continue reading
AAUP releases a nondisclosure agreement professors must sign that appears to bar them from sharing much of anything or criticizing the program after they leave. | Continue reading
As more universities give students voice-controlled Alexa devices, observers and critics ask why. | Continue reading
As one of the first university-hosted blogging platforms prepares to wind down, concerns arise about the fate of its archives. | Continue reading
Concerns on a new model for sale of textbooks. | Continue reading
Rapidly produced and highly topical digital humanities projects are challenging perceptions of the field. | Continue reading
Plan calls for institution to have greater autonomy on salaries and staffing than is the norm in the country. | Continue reading
Lecturer at University of Washington says he's standing up to political correctness. Many challenge his facts. | Continue reading