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Nominee for Civil Rights
Beginning to fill a long list of Education Department vacancies, Catherine Lhamon, a California lawyer, is picked as assistant secretary for civil rights.
Holding Colleges Responsible
Student activists have shined a national spotlight on sexual assault on campuses, but others are encouraging colleges to fight back against federal rules they say are overreaching.
Scholars as 'Foreign Agents'
New Russian law requiring NGOs to register as "foreign agents" if they receive funding from foreign sources and are engaged in "political activity" threatens closure of an independent polling agency and raises concerns about climate for scholarly collaborations.
Wiggle Room for Political Science?
NSF issues guidance on how it will carry out Congressional orders to restrict funding of the discipline, and the agency leaves the door open to new grants.
Unprofessional Tenure Denial?
American U. says it has track for those with non-academic careers who want to join the faculty. A suit charges that the university only values traditional academic credentials.
Accreditation Fast Track?
Proposal circulating on Capitol Hill asks accreditors to create a way for new providers to gain approval more quickly.
Textbook Transparency and Pricing
Publishers, bookstores and professors are complying with federal provisions to make textbook pricing more transparent for students. But prices are still high.
Plagiarizing Across Europe
Many students in many countries don't know what the rules are, study finds.