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Academic Minute: Spiritual Crusading
Today on the Academic Minute, Richard Allington, assistant professor of history at Eastern New Mexico University, explores how ordinary people...
Professor Investigated for Participating in Scholar Strike
James Thomas, associate professor of sociology at the University of Mississippi, withheld his labor for two days as part of...
Professor Who Questioned Student's Request Reinstated
The University of California, Los Angeles, reinstated a lecturer in accounting it suspended this summer over his email to a...
Report Examines Years of Performance-Based Funding Studies
A new report examines two decades of research on performance-based funding for public higher education institutions, determining that most studies...
ITT Loan Servicer Agrees to Forgive $330 Million
PEAKS Trust, which owned and managed loans for now-defunct ITT Educational Services, has agreed to forgive $330 million in student...
Academic Minute: Thinking Sociologically
Today on the Academic Minute, Katrina Hoop, associate professor of sociology at St. Joseph’s College, discusses teaching her students to...
Student Debt Collector Settles With N.Y. Attorney General
Transworld Systems Inc., the principal debt collector for National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts , agreed to pay $600,000 in penalties...
Huntington Cancels Mostly White Conference
The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens canceled an upcoming virtual conference called "Landscapes of Exploitation in the Atlantic World" following criticism that nearly all speakers were white and that the framing of the conference itself was problematic, conflating exploitation with slavery and colonization.