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Harvard Undertakes Governance Review
Harvard University's secretive seven-member governing board is reviewing its functioning, Bloomberg reported. While few details about the review are known...
Another Nobel Laureate Joins Obama Administration
President Obama has nominated Carl Wieman, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, as associate director of the...
SUNY Responds to Binghamton Basketball Troubles
In the wake of a revealing investigation into major academic improprieties committed by the men’s basketball program at the State...
California Commission Makes First Proposals
A commission formed with the sweeping charge of transforming the University of California to face harsh budget realities laid out...
Supreme Court Unanimously Backs Borrower Over Lender
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a borrower whose student loans were discharged in bankruptcy without his having...
No Job for Adjunct Who Took a Stand
Instructor whose resignation drew attention to controversial (since rescinded) DNA-testing policy at U. of Akron is blocked from ever coming back.
Is Collaboration a Form of Collaboration?
By co-editing a book with Israeli scholars, a professor at American U. of Beirut finds himself under attack on his campus and sets off a debate over academic freedom.