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For-Profits Stay on Campaign Sidelines
Sector's spending on political campaigns has fallen off sharply during the 2018 midterm campaign cycle.
‘A Global Crisis of Attacks’
Annual globally focused report documents nearly 300 "attacks" on higher education, including violent assaults against campuses or individual scholars, killings of student protesters, cases of imprisonment or criminal prosecution, and restrictions on academic travel.
7 Hours a Week on Existential Despair
New Penn course is one of several efforts at colleges to try to get students to engage in quiet reflection and to set aside their phones and careerism.
Berkeley B-School Vows to Do Better on Diversity
The Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, is vowing to do a better job of recruiting...
'Clinically Significant' Stress for Students After Election
Research published Monday suggests that many college students had “clinically significant” levels of stress after the 2016 presidential election. The...
For-Profit College Attendance Linked to Poor Financial Outcomes
A paper released last month by researchers at Stanford University, Cornell University and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
Academic Minute: A Tiny Treatment for ALS?
Today on the Academic Minute, Joe Erlichman, professor and chair of science at St. Lawrence University, explores why looking small...
‘Race on Campus’
Author discusses her new book about what she sees as widespread misconceptions about the state of race relations in higher education.