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Bias Against Women at Japanese Medical School
Jutendo University has become the second Japanese university to admit that its medical school discriminated against female applicants, The Mainichi...
Meeting the Challenges of Today's Endowment Strategies
In this webcast, Scott Jaschik and Rick Seltzer will discuss recent trends in endowment strategies for different kinds of institutions...
Humanities and STEM as Overlapping Circles
Can the humanities and the STEM disciplines overlap? In today's Academic Minute, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Mark...
Art Institutes and Other Former For-Profit Institutions Closing
Converting for-profit colleges to nonprofits may not be the solution to saving failing campuses.
Slight Dip in Ph.D.s Conferred
Are numbers of doctorates awarded finally starting to reflect the poor academic job market? New data show decline in nonscience and engineering degrees. Women continue to make gains.
The Top Admissions Articles of 2018
Here are the pieces that attracted the most readers. Topics include the difficulty of getting in, admissions inequities, race and testing.
Predatory Publications Researcher Will Return to Teaching
Derek Pyne, an associate professor of economics at Thompson Rivers University, in British Columbia, will return to teaching next month...
Six Senators Question 'U.S. News' Rankings
They urge more of an emphasis on institutions' records at admitting significant numbers of disadvantaged students.