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Gains and Losses in R&D
Within NSF’s rankings of top 25 institutions in R&D expenditures, 14 institutions are up at least one spot, while six are down at least a notch.
'Feast or Famine' for Humanities Ph.D.s
Some doctorate earners emerge with high levels of debt, while a growing number have none. For a plurality, teaching assistantships are top source of revenue, but that's not the case for most other disciplines.
Some U of Phoenix Programs Fail Gainful Employment Standard
Academic programs enrolling roughly 16 percent of the University of Phoenix's student population do not pass the federal government's new...
Joint Federal Guidance on Low-Income Students
Federal agencies must do more to coordinate public benefits so that low-income students can access and complete college, the secretaries...
Chancellor of North Carolina Central Dies of Cancer
Debra Saunders-White, chancellor of North Carolina Central University since 2013, died Saturday. Saunders-White, 59, had been battling kidney cancer and...
Fort Hays President Leaves Abruptly
Mirta M. Martin, president of Fort Hays State University, left the position last week, effective immediately, with a university press...
Academic Minute: Exercise Routines and Intrinsic Rewards
Today on the Academic Minute, Alison Phillips, assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State University, examines a way to make...
Canadian Literary Figures Divide Over Ex-Professor
Canadian authors and academics are dividing over the case of Steven Galloway (right), an acclaimed novelist who was until last...