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Protest Over Bishop Tutu as Speaker at Gonzaga
Some alumni of Gonzaga University have organized a petition drive to ask the institution to rescind its invitation to Archbishop...
Cal State Pulls Grants From Half Its Grad Students
California State University campuses are withholding grants to about 20,000 graduate students with financial need, The San Francisco Chronicle reported...
Academic Minute: Neurology of Alcohol Addiction
In today’s Academic Minute, Danny Winder of Vanderbilt University explains why the effects of alcohol can vary widely among individuals...
Questioning Conventional Wisdom on Tuition Increases
Fitch Ratings, which analyzes some colleges' credit worthiness, on Friday released an analysis challenging the idea that tuition increases are...
Israel Considers How Much Universities Should Use Hebrew
Advocates for Hebrew are pushing Israeli universities, where many courses are taught and much research is published in English, to...
Canada Cuts Grants for Canadian Studies in the U.S.
The Canadian government has slashed funds that have supported Canadian studies programs in the United States, The Vancouver Observer reported...
Scholars Appeal to Bahrain on Academic Freedom
The Middle East Studies Association has written a letter to the Ministry of Justice in Bahrain to object to the...
NCAA Thinks It Has an Image Problem
The National Collegiate Athletic Association, bruised by a year of scandals, is looking to improve its image. Ad Age reported...