Travel with me to my not atypical college town, Eugene, Ore., where I'm privileged to labor as a professor at our vibrant University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Ours is a fast-growing city of some 175,000 people, straddling the sparkling Willamette River.(in … | Continue reading
A conversation with Sam Brenton, the Director of Online Education. | Continue reading
The peer-review system, which relies on unpaid volunteers, has long been stressed. COVID-19 has made it worse. Possible solutions include paying reviewers or limiting revise-and-resubmits. Are these Band-Aids on structural problems? | Continue reading
New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center show total enrollment declined 4.1 percent since last spring. Community colleges are once again the sector hit the hardest. | Continue reading
Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities have strengthened COVID-19 rules following a rise in cases. “Since Spring Break, we have received reports of COVID cases among undergraduates who have recently traveled or who were exposed to someone who has recently traveled,” said an em … | Continue reading
Barring an appeal to Ohio’s Supreme Court, Oberlin College will have to pay out $31 million for supporting false claims that a local bakery discriminated against students of color. | Continue reading
Leaders of the Carnegie Foundation and the American Council on Education envision judging colleges on their contributions to social mobility and racial equity. | Continue reading
Roughly 52 percent of gay men in the U.S. have a bachelor’s degree, compared to 36 percent of all adults. Their academic achievement shows resilience in the face of victimization. | Continue reading
Astronomer withdraws paper and puts book sales on hold amid controversy. Some say he’s a casualty in the culture wars; others say he burned himself. | Continue reading
The academic community must move beyond compliance with standards and toward the cultivation of a greater sense of ethical responsibility, argue A. Susan Jurow and Jordan Jurow. | Continue reading
Professors within the University System of Georgia say the Board of Regents' policy proposals seek to centralize power and end, not update, tenure. | Continue reading
Audrey Watters has delivered a landmark book. | Continue reading
It offers exciting new ways to learn, create and disseminate research, write 11 scholars, who offer concrete ideas for how to harness it as a productive tool for teaching and scholarship. | Continue reading
The unabashed “Ivy League alternative,” birthed from an investor-backed start-up, gains a very traditional stamp of approval. | Continue reading
Are numbers of doctorates awarded finally starting to reflect the poor academic job market? New data show decline in nonscience and engineering degrees. Women continue to make gains. | Continue reading
New York University’s graduate employee union, which is affiliated with the United Auto Workers, went on strike Monday over stalled negotiations for a new contract. Ninety-six percent of voting union members approved the strike ahead of time, with leaders accusing the university … | Continue reading
Education-technology company Coursera launched a bid to become a publicly traded company last week, giving industry experts a glimpse at its financial inner workings. The company is losing money, but it might be finding a way to monetize MOOCs. | Continue reading
Are academics “pretentious fox terriers” or “bad dinner guests”? | Continue reading
Trump administration proposes revamping visas so students would have to apply for an extension after fixed terms of no more than four years. Some students would have to reapply after two years, depending on their country of origin. | Continue reading
When it comes to their students testing positive for COVID-19, professors say they have a right to know and share the information how they deem appropriate. Colleges want to keep those cases close to the vest. | Continue reading
Lee Burdette Williams highlights the collision of two trends on campuses: the increased awareness of Title IX and the growing number of students with autism. | Continue reading
The research landscape has changed due to COVID-19. Let’s keep it that way, Janet Napolitano writes. | Continue reading
Governing board votes to eliminate 97 full-time faculty positions. | Continue reading
While some colleges make extensive plans to guard against a spread of the coronavirus when they reopen, others can't afford to do as much and are worried about running out of basic supplies. | Continue reading
The latest must-read book by Steven Johnson. | Continue reading
New findings: college students actually perform worse with access to digital course-planning platforms that show how previous students performed. | Continue reading
Cybercriminals successfully targeted three colleges and universities using ransom tactics new to higher ed. Experts say more institutions are likely to be affected. | Continue reading
Apple’s app for sharing university lectures was an important precursor to the MOOC movement, but the future of iTunes U doesn’t look bright. | Continue reading
Scott McLemee reviews Lydia Pyne's Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff. | Continue reading
Lior Shamir, a computer scientist who's actively participated in efforts to increase participation in STEM fields, now wonders if she's been on the wrong side. | Continue reading
Jim Jump reviews a paper on how the university treats athletes, legacies and others. | Continue reading
Arbitrator says UC Berkeley owes its computer science TAs, including many undergraduates, some $5 million in missed pay and benefits. | Continue reading
International students say they were recruited by the University of Farmington -- set up by the U.S. government as part of a sting operation focused on student visa fraud -- after their institutions lost accreditation. Some blame the government for setting the students up. | Continue reading
Books make great gifts. Some personal recommendations. | Continue reading
It's about the student, not the major. | Continue reading
Graduate student's suicide at UW Madison is a devastating cautionary tale about abusive lab environments. | Continue reading
Conservative government announces plans to create an agency modeled on U.S. project. | Continue reading
The university's approach to affirmative action does not discriminate against Asian Americans, a federal judge rules. | Continue reading
A course at Yale-NUS College on dissent and resistance in Singapore was canceled two weeks before it was scheduled to start, the Singapore-based The Straits Times reported. Yale-NUS president Tan Tai Yong said some of the planned course activities and speakers would “infringe our … | Continue reading
James M. Van Wyck recommends that Ph.D. students make at least three mental shifts about time as they negotiate graduate school. | Continue reading
New paper says the death of star scientists often benefits their subfields, via an influx in new contributors and ideas. | Continue reading
Europe and Japan differ from the U.S. and China on potential risks. | Continue reading
Facebook said this week that it has hired Daniel Povey, the speech-recognition researcher whom Johns Hopkins University fired for using bolt cutters to enter an administrative building occupied by student protesters. In a very unapologetic letter posted to his website last week, … | Continue reading
Johns Hopkins fires professor over clash with student protesters, but he says he has no remorse for either the attack or being a "white male." | Continue reading
New research points to differentials in faculty pay and class size. | Continue reading
Pop wants to become the next big messaging app for students. But will it avoid the mistakes of Yik Yak and other failed campus-based apps before it? | Continue reading
Hackers may have accessed sensitive student data from over 60 colleges as the result of a security flaw in Ellucian’s widely used enterprise resource planning software. | Continue reading