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June 4, 2021
Hannah-Jones case costs the university a noted chemistry faculty recruit. Professors there worry about even bigger recruitment problems ahead.

June 4, 2021
State Department analyst says the department is prioritizing processing student and scholar visas but still faces continuing capacity challenges related to the pandemic.

June 4, 2021
Community college leaders and lawmakers are reinvigorating their efforts to provide housing for students after the pandemic shined a spotlight on housing insecurity.

June 4, 2021
Switzerland classifies “unjustified” self-citation or claiming authorship despite contributing little as grounds for sanctions.

June 3, 2021
Cornell approves new dual degree program with Peking University over the objections of Faculty Senate and Student Assembly.

June 3, 2021
New survey finds 24 percent of faculty senate chairs say faculty influence declined during COVID-19. Fifteen percent of chairs say it increased. Survey also delves into faculty say in budget decisions, voided handbooks, contracts and more.

June 3, 2021
The pandemic is still causing the number of students who transfer between and to two-year colleges to plummet, a new report shows. Meanwhile, transfer to four-year colleges is on the rise again.

June 3, 2021
The 2020 recession didn’t slow corporate spending on employee education and training. A $150 million investment in Guild Education, which helps employees find the learning they need, suggests continued growth in the market.

June 3, 2021
Roberts Wesleyan University has started a doctorate in occupational therapy. Saint Leo University has started a bachelor’s program in veteran studies. University of North Carolina at Greensboro is starting a Ph.D. in computer science.

June 2, 2021
Montana Board of Regents wins injunction temporarily blocking new law allowing for carrying of guns on campus. The regents argue legislators infringed on their authority to set campus policies.

June 2, 2021
An investigation finds racism and sexism at Virginia Military Institute are “present, tolerated and left unaddressed.” The administration, authors conclude, will not change unless forced.

June 2, 2021
Activists for Palestinian rights celebrate movement away from the “two-sides narrative,” but do the statements go too far in one direction?

June 2, 2021
President Biden has released a plan to tackle racial wealth disparities in the United States, but he excluded the cancellation of student loan debt, which experts argue is one of the biggest parts of the problem.

June 2, 2021
Culver-Stockton College Cindy Whiston, education St. Norbert College Adam Brandt, biology Philip Klickman, music Valerie Kretz, communication and media studies John Miller, dean of curriculum and senior diversity officer Matthew Sprague, chemistry University of Delaware

June 1, 2021
Students say a film professor at Sonoma State hides behind faculty rights while violating their rights in the classroom. The details suggest the case is complicated.  

June 1, 2021
The faculty union at County College of Morris has called on the institution's president to resign after a series of faculty layoffs and continued tensions under his leadership.

June 1, 2021
Pennsylvania lawmakers have continued to focus on reducing campus sexual assaults and funding initiatives throughout the state that support that goal, even as the national program on which those efforts were modeled has waned.

June 1, 2021
President seeks large increases for NIH and NSF and a more modest increase for the NEH.

May 28, 2021
Without federal stimulus money, states would have cut tax appropriations for higher education by 2.3 percent. But how states are spending the billions in stimulus varies.

May 28, 2021
Proctoring companies that use artificial intelligence to monitor students’ behavior during online exams typically require university instructors to review footage of unusual activity. But is that human oversight actually happening?

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