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A Quashed Pay Cut Continues to Create Tensions
A draft of a faculty agreement for the Maricopa Community Colleges proposed reducing pay for one group of faculty members to bring their wages in line with others. The final version mostly nixed the pay cut, but critics are still concerned.
The Myth of Education as Equalizer
A professor argues that the main purpose of higher education is not simply to prepare students for the workforce but to help solve society’s ills.
Alliance University Threatened With Loss of Accreditation
Alliance University, a private nonprofit Christian institution in New York, has been ordered by the Middle States Commission on Higher...
Vision: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Week: Brett Fajen, associate dean for academic affairs and professor...
New Programs: Public Administration, Government, Psychology, Computer Science
American International College is starting a bachelor’s of public administration. Regent University is starting a Ph.D. program in government. Spartanburg...
Bay State College Facing Eviction Over Unpaid Rent
Bay State College, an embattled for-profit institution in Massachusetts, is facing eviction over what its landlord claims is $720,000 in...
Former Wisconsin Grad Student Arrested for Violent Threats
A former University of Wisconsin at Madison anthropology graduate student, Arvin Raj Mathur, was arrested for sending numerous violent and...
Parents Awarded $6.1 Million in LSU Hazing Case
A jury in Baton Rouge awarded $6.1 million to the parents of a Louisiana State University student who died following...