US students not taking enough courses to graduate on time First-time Clearinghouse assessment finds most undergraduates don’t even have 12 credits per semester, too few to finish in five years Paul Basken 8月 2日
LGBTQ presidents ‘finding their voice’, says long-serving campus leader Just 20 years after their very existence was uncertain, LGBTQ campus leaders now writing the book on how to learn from their personal schools of hard knocks Paul Basken 8月 2日
Companies lobby US Supreme Court to keep affirmative action As loss in Harvard and UNC cases seems likely, dozens of top corporations argue in filings that they do better with diverse workforces Paul Basken 8月 1日
US Supreme Court Justice quits teaching role after protests Judicial leader of campaign to end abortion rights abandons constitutional law seminar at George Washington University Paul Basken 7月 28日
Nature and University of California expand open-access pact California continues trailblazing push with major publishers but sees fundamental cost problem still unresolved Paul Basken 7月 27日
Biden sets new limits on for-profit colleges Administration nears completion of regulatory overhaul with new rules on student aid, non-profit conversions and prison recruiting Paul Basken 7月 27日
US suspends Fulbright-Hays foreign-language penalty Answering lawsuit, Biden administration agrees – for now – that native speakers can get full credit for foreign language mastery Paul Basken 7月 27日
Canada’s universities tackle false claims of Indigenous identities Difficulties defining who has indigenous heritage complicates efforts to stop some profiting from made-up affiliations Paul Basken 7月 26日
Top universities face losing billions as legal case gains traction Prospect of huge payout grows as Biden administration backs student claim that elite campuses colluded to hold down financial aid Paul Basken 7月 25日
Here are three quick fixes that would mitigate precarity Giving adjuncts biweekly payments, internal status for permanent vacancies and tenure on promotion would all help, say Lisa Carver and Samantha King Lisa Carver 7月 25日
Science inequity rooted in ‘moralised’ worship of ‘hard work’ Decade-long study of scientists’ output and attitudes produces book on why structural tactics to tackle gender and race inequalities fail Paul Basken 7月 22日