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Senate Democrats Issue Principles for Higher Ed Act
Senate Democrats last week issued a set of principles they say should guide the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act...
Maine Suspends Second Professor
The University of Maine confirmed Friday that it placed a second professor on paid leave over unspecified concerns. Maine suspended...
U Toronto Publishes '10,000 Ph.D.s Project'
Roughly one-third of Ph.D.s who graduated from the University of Toronto between 2000 and 2015 hold tenure-track or tenured positions...
Racist Stickers Found at Community College
Racist stickers were found in public spaces across Monroe Community College last week, The Democrat and Chronicle reported. The stickers...
Nebraska AAUP Leader Says She Can't Defend Grad Student
A faculty member at the University of Nebraska at Omaha resigned last week as president of the state conference of...
Caltech Harasser Finds New Academic Home, in Finland
Christian Ott, a professor of theoretical astrophysics who resigned from the California Institute of Technology last year after he was...
Montana Coach Removed After Texting Escort Services
The contract of University of Montana women’s soccer coach Mark Plakorus won’t be renewed after he used a university cellphone...
Academic Minute: Liberal Education and Nationalism
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Lafayette College Week, Neha Vora, an associate professor of anthropology at Lafayette, explores...