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Technology and Construction Accidents
Can technology help cut down on construction accidents? In today's Academic Minute, California State University East Bay's Reza Akhavian discusses...
A Call to Reform Undergraduate Education
Major study by American Academy of Arts and Sciences seeks change in curriculum and assessment, commitment to funding public higher education, new ideas about the faculty role, and more.
Nationwide Protest Against Tax on Grad Students
At Penn and elsewhere, students organize “grade-ins” to show what they do and how House Republicans’ tax legislation could make it harder for them to make ends meet.
GOP Begins Rewrite of Federal Aid Law
House education committee leaks its ambitious first draft of a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, with broad changes aimed at both deregulation and more accountability in how federal student aid is distributed and used.
'We Didn't Do Well'
Susan Herbst is a scholar of political incivility. She's also president at UConn, where a campus talk went off the rails Tuesday. She discusses lessons from her research and this week's incident.
How the Tax Bills Would Hit Higher Ed
On eve of vote on Senate tax reform plan, we compare it to the House version, which would hurt students and families more. Both would hit colleges and universities hard by imposing new taxes and constraining state budgets.
New Presidents or Provosts: Brock U, Franklin College, Mount St. Mary's U, Norwich U, Oberlin College, St. Petersburg College, Truman State U, U of the Incarnate Word, U of Liberia, U of Miami, Washington College
Sandra G. Affenito, associate provost and dean of graduate studies and research at the University of Saint Joseph, in Connecticut...
Education Department Signals Possible Changes to Gainful-Employment Rule
In documents released this week ahead of a negotiated rulemaking session on the gainful employment rule, the Department of Education...