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AAUP and FIRE Question Treatment of Adjunct
The American Association of University Professors and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education both on Thursday expressed concerns about...
Academic Minute: Why We Like Round Numbers
For the 500th Academic Minute, Art Markman of the University of Texas at Austin explains why we think round numbers...
Law Professors Urge Obama to Use Authority to Help Immigrant Students
Dozens of law professors have signed a joint letter to President Obama urging him to take steps to help college...
New Jersey Comptroller Calls for Standardized Pay for CC Chiefs
New Jersey should establish guidelines for the compensation of community college presidents, which varies enormously from institution to institution, the...
Free Textbook Bill Advances in California
The California Senate on Wednesday passed two bills that would require the state to create free, online textbooks through open...
Report Finds Debit Card Agreements on 900 Campuses
About 900 colleges nationwide have agreements with banks or financial services companies for debit or prepaid cards for financial aid...
Higher Ed Analysts Bolt Education Sector for New America
WASHINGTON -- Only in this town would the move of a group of policy analysts from one think tank to...
Academic Minute: Animal DNA and Traditional Chinese Medicine
In today’s Academic Minute, Michael Bunce of Murdoch University explains his work using DNA testing to identify the non-declared contents...