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House Committee Backs Cut for Cultural Endowments
The full House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday endorsed a subcommittee's recommendation that Congress cut spending for the National Endowment for...
Reconsidering the Stanford Prison Experiment
Stanford's alumni magazine has published a new oral history of the "prison experiment" 40 years ago in which some students...
Cal State Rejects Governor's Request on Salaries
The California State University Board of Trustees on Tuesday approved a salary of $400,000 for Elliot Hirshman, the new president...
Colleges Urged to Do More to Help Students Avoid Private Loans
Colleges could and should do much more to inform their students about the availability of federal loans and the risks...
Academic Minute: Women's Health Care
In today’s Academic Minute, Purchase College's Karen Baird discusses the modifications that have made health care more inclusive of needs...
Court Strikes Down U.S. Requirement on State Approval for Online Programs
WASHINGTON -- A federal court today invalidated a recently implemented U.S. Education Department regulation that requires colleges and universities that...
Court Backs Right of University to Discipline for Facebook Comments
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has upheld the right of the University of Minnesota to discipline a student in a...
Push to Protect Non-Tenure-Track Law Profs
An American Bar Association panel reviewing standards used to evaluate law schools is leaning toward requiring more job protection for...