Inside Higher Ed's News

A scholar analyzes the state of instruction in American history survey courses – and finds them heavily reliant on textbooks.

4 Va. institutions seek state immunity protection as estate of bankrupt bookstore chain seeks to recoup funds.

A graduate student brings charges of bogus citations and plagiarism against a professor, and guess who loses her job?

With strike looming, university and teaching assistants compromise on pay, benefits and other issues.

Fairleigh Dickinson U. finds that Western Civilization was being taught by a leader of the National Socialist Movement. 

The report on controversial Middle Eastern studies professors got some predictable, loud reactions and some less predictable, quiet reactions.

A new nonprofit group works with colleges to make 'indestructible' students' take fire safety seriously.

Study of salaries at four-year colleges finds raises in 2004-5 much better than last year's average of 2.1%.

A committee investigating charges that scholars in the university's Middle Eastern studies program intimidated Jewish and Israeli students has found "no evidence of any statements made by the faculty that could reasonably be construed as anti-Semitic."But the panel concluded that one professor "exceeded commonly accepted bounds" of classroom behavior by conveying that a student's question merited harsh public criticism, and found a more general lack of civility in the interactions of professors and students.