Filter & Sort
Positive News for HBCUs
New Gallup-Purdue University report says black students are more likely to feel supported and be engaged in work after graduation if they attend historically black colleges and universities.
Substance Over Buzz
Graduate students' analysis of interdisciplinary jobs ads suggest that many jobs aren't truly interdisciplinary, but those that are tend to be linked to dedicated centers or clusters.
Can a Professor Be Forced to Assign a $180 Textbook?
Reprimand for faculty member who assigned less expensive options than his department's preference (book by two of its own) sets off debate on academic freedom and expensive books.
Ben Carson vs. 'Extreme Bias'
Leading GOP candidate in Iowa presidential race explains how he would have Education Department prevent "indoctrination," and cites the "stomping on Jesus" case as an example.
Opinion
Solving Yesterday's Problems Constrains Tomorrow's Solutions
The onus is on policy makers to create new regulatory frameworks to support needed innovation in areas like competency-based education, writes Paul LeBlanc.
NLRB Returns to Grad Student Unions
Board agrees to review issue of whether teaching assistants at private nonprofit universities are entitled to collective bargaining.
Opinion
A Guide for Applying to Jobs at Selective Liberal Arts Colleges
They are different types of institutions than where most people will have gone to graduate school, write a group of contributors to a philosophy blog.
Accidental Activists
Author of new book on the history of the American Association of University Professors discusses how the organization has changed and remained the same over the last century, and what its next 100 years might look like.