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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...
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.
Academic Minute: Community Responses After Disasters
Today on the Academic Minute, Ricia Anne Chansky, professor of literature at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, explores...
U of Michigan Seeks Court Order to End Strike
After the graduate students' union at the University of Michigan voted on Sunday to continue its strike until Sept. 18...
Leasing Drops Faster Among First-Year Students, Developer Says
One of the country’s largest private student housing companies reported leasing rates falling by about seven percentage points between this...