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Academic Minute: Paying for Pain
Today on the Academic Minute, Rebecca Scott, a lecturer in marketing and strategy at Cardiff University, delves into a few...
Spending Bill Gives Flexibility to Borrowers Seeking Loan Consolidation
Language in the omnibus spending bill Congress agreed to over the weekend directs the Department of Education to allow student...
2U Acquires Online Education Company GetSmarter
On Tuesday 2U, an online program management company, said it will acquire GetSmarter, an online education company that focuses on...
DeVry to Rebrand as Adtalem Global Education
DeVry Education Group is seeking to change its name to Adtalem Global Education Inc., it revealed to shareholders in an...
Northwestern J-School Drops Accreditation
Northwestern University's journalism school has dropped its specialized accreditation, The Chicago Tribune reported. The school -- generally considered among the...
Professors Plan to Strike at Illinois-Springfield
The union representing tenure-track and tenured faculty members at the University of Illinois at Springfield announced late Monday that it...
Temptation
The view of immorality is different for children and adults. In today's Academic Minute, Yale University's Christina Starmans explores why...
Who Defines Expertise?
Accreditor’s new rules are forcing a professor who has taught philosophy for 50 years to stop doing so, because her Ph.D. is in English. Many object.