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Educause President to Retire
Diana G. Oblinger, president and CEO of the higher education information technology organization Educause, on Thursday announced she will retire...
NASA Suspends Most Collaboration with Russia
In a major development vis-à-vis international scientific collaboration, NASA has suspended the majority of its ties with the Russian federal...
Academic Minute: Memory and Aging in Brain Networks
In today’s Academic Minute, Nathan Spreng, assistant professor of human development at Cornell University, discusses how he is using advancements...
Scrutiny of 4-Year Programs at Former 2-Year Colleges
Florida was a pioneer in having community colleges offer four-year degree programs (and having them drop "community" from their names)...
Legislators Reject College of Charleston Trustee
The General Assembly of South Carolina, which selects most public college trustees, on Wednesday voted down the re-election of a...
National Geographic Pulls Show That Upset Anthropologists
The National Geographic Channel has indefinitely put off a new television show "Nazi War Diggers" that was to have featured...
New Federal Oversight Proposed for For-Profit Colleges
Three Congressional lawmakers are pushing for a new federal committee that would coordinate the government’s oversight of for-profit colleges. Senators...
Oates's Successor at Labor Department Approved
The U.S. Senate's Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) on Wednesday announced that it had approved Portia Wu...