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AAUP Launches New Journal on Academic Freedom
The American Association of University Professors has launched a new Journal of Academic Freedom, which will be published annually or...
College Backs Down in Fight on Ceramic Crosses
Eastfield Collge, in Texas, will let students in its ceramics classes make crosses after all. The college has banned crosses...
Awaiting the Tablet
Will Apple's new electronic device galvanize the market for e-textbooks and transform higher education?
Online Enrollment Up 17%
One in every four students now takes at least one course online. But study finds increases aren't necessarily matched by faculty respect.
Resistance on Debt Proposal
Panel balks at Education Department's draft rule introducing a loan-to-income ratio targeting high-priced, low-payoff programs.
Caltech Faces Another Suicide
A leading figure in physics, Andrew Lange of the California Institute of Technology, killed himself last week, leaving many of...
Loan Help for the Middle Class
As White House seeks to regain footing, Obama calls for expanding program designed to keep borrowers' student loan payments in check. But spending freeze likely, too.
A Rally the U. of California Regents Can Join
Regents and senior administrators have come in for tough criticism at campus protests in the last year, with many students...