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8 States Join Effort to Spur College-Level Work in High School
High schools in eight states have agreed to participate in a project aimed at using a system of "board examinations"...
Gift Backs Diversity Efforts at Berkeley
The University of California at Berkeley, barred by the state from considering race in admissions, is today announcing a major...
Slipping (Further) Off the Pedestal
Americans increasingly recognize centrality of higher education, but believe more each day that colleges care more about bottom line than about students, survey finds. Does that matter?
Graduation Gaps for Science Majors
Students who start as STEM majors complete degrees at far lower rates than do students in other fields, study finds.
Is Heckling a Right?
Incident at Irvine prompts debate over whether repeatedly interrupting a campus speaker is an exercise of free expression or the suppression of free expression.
Faculty Challenge Tenure Denial
Ohio University professor denied tenure over collegiality issues was victim of a "tainted" process and should have been approved, a committee finds.
Prof Wins Damages in Suit Over Being Half-Japanese
A federal jury ordered the University of Oregon to pay Paula Rogers $164,000 after finding that she was a victim...