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Publishers to Review Papers on Chinese Minority Groups
Academic publishers Springer Nature and Wiley both said they would re-evaluate articles previously published on Uighurs, Tibetans and other minority...
Academic Minute: Global Genes of Modern Iran
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Connecticut College Week, Marie Ostby, assistant professor of English, discusses the real story...
A Presidential Apology at Purdue
Purdue University president Mitch Daniels apologized Wednesday for making a controversial and, according to his critics, inaccurate comment about the scarcity of black scholars, which he called “one of the rarest creatures in America.”
St. Thomas Confirms Faculty Layoffs
The University of St. Thomas in Texas won’t renew contracts for 30 professors next year, as part of a restructuring...
Alaska Regents Reject Plan for 'One University' Accreditation
The University of Alaska system's governing board has voted down a plan that would have consolidated the accreditation of the...
Survey: 91% of Researchers in Arab Nations Want to Emigrate
Ninety-one percent of researchers working in Arab countries would like to emigrate to another nation for a permanent academic position...
OUP Agrees to 1st U.S. Read-and-Publish Deal
Oxford University Press announced its first “read-and-publish” open-access deal in the U.S. this week. The publisher reached an agreement in...
State Data Partnerships
As part of a push to better equip higher education institutions with better data, the University of Texas system worked...