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The confidential world of high-dollar college fund-raising doesn’t usually make national headlines unless a major donor makes a record-breaking gift . Interactions between those tasked with asking for large sums of money and those...December 11, 2018 from Inside Higher Ed | News
The “half-life” of academic scientists has shortened dramatically over time, says a new paper calling attention to the “rise of the temporary workforce.” Following scientists in three fields, the paper’s...December 11, 2018 from Inside Higher Ed | News
A Columbia University student shouted that “white people are the best thing that ever happened to the world” on Sunday evening during a racist tirade in front of students of color, who caught the rant on video. “We...December 11, 2018 from Inside Higher Ed | News
The Trump administration in September launched a comprehensive review of all research involving human fetal tissue, which has helped researchers make headway in studies of macular degeneration and infectious diseases like HIV and the...December 11, 2018 from Inside Higher Ed | News
The student government association at Long Island University’s Post campus is demanding an apology from President Kimberly Cline and members of her administration after a co-editor of LIU’s student newspaper said several...December 10, 2018 from Inside Higher Ed | News
The number of U.S. doctorates awarded in 2017 fell slightly year over year, to 54,664 from 54,862, according to a new report based on data from the federal Survey of Earned Doctorates. As in years past, science and engineering doctorates...December 10, 2018 from Inside Higher Ed | News
About 30 colleges are shutting their doors at the end of this month, nearly a year after becoming the latest group of for-profit institutions to convert to nonprofit status. The colleges, most of which are part of the once renowned Art...December 10, 2018 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Several dozen teaching assistants at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill started a grade strike Friday, saying that they will withhold student grades as long as the university moves ahead with the idea of constructing a...December 10, 2018 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Jason Camacho, a blind resident of Brooklyn, N.Y., is suing 50 colleges over the accessibility of their websites. The 50 lawsuits, filed in November, say the colleges are in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act, as their...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
Last March the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) welcomed Mohammed bin Sa ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
A raft of new punishments for research misconduct by institutions and individual researchers in China extends the penalties for those blacklisted for serious misconduct breaches outside the higher ...December 7, 2018 from Diverse
According to Lewis University officials, the institution has rescheduled its winter commencement, originally scheduled for Dec. 15-16 to May 17-19 due to a mumps outbreak. The rescheduling will not delay the customary timeline for...December 7, 2018 from Diverse
With a $875,000 grant from the Gambrell Foundation of Charlotte, as many as 700 first-year, full-time students at Central Piedmont Community College will receive laptop computers, and approximately 3,500 students will receive laptops...December 7, 2018 from Diverse
John N. Kastanis, CEO at University Hospital in Newark has resigned amid requests for his ouster following a New Jersey Health Department investigation of an outbreak that might have caused the death of three infants in the hospital’s...December 7, 2018 from Diverse
Virginia College staff and faculty are now searching for new jobs after it was announced that the for-profit institution would close indefinitely after losing its accreditation. Virginia faculty and staff received an email from the...December 7, 2018 from Diverse
It was a privilege and honor for me to have a friendly and professional relationship with President George H.W. Bush. I found him to be an extraordinary man of love, values, principles, standards, honesty, compassion, loyalty,...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
The Cameroonian government has announced the start of classes at a Cameroon-Republic of Congo inter-state university next academic year as part of a raft of measures to promote higher education re ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
Recent official statistics show a slight dip in the number of students enrolling at universities for the first time, although overall student numbers have again increased. Higher education heads a ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
Universities that become a UWN University Partner are able to raise their profile among UWN readers at the same time as providing vital support for our independent journalism on high ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
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What should be the stance of a university when one of its faculty calls for peaceful protest? In late 2014, two professors, Benny Tai Yiu-ting and Chan Kin-man, and Baptist minister Chu Yiu-mi ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
Last month, the United Arab Emirates sentenced Matthew Hedges, a 31-year old PhD student from the United Kingdom, to life in prison on allegations of spying. The international outcry was immediate ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
She was recently criticised on social media for her "inappropriate" attire at a recent university event, but the newly-appointed vice-chancellor of South Africa's top research university, the Univ ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
"Study the past if you would define the future," Confucius said. Today we increasingly hear of the importance of providing international and intercultural learning experiences for all s ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
American scientists published 409,000 science, technology and medical papers in 2017, according to the journal Learned Publishing , which analysed data from the United States National Scienc ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
Like many other public universities, the University of California (UC) system is in a long transition from an era with relatively robust state subsidisation and low tuition and housing costs to th ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
Diverse university funding systems in different countries around the world and varying degrees of autonomy lead universities to develop different strategic responses. Despite these differences, al ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
Five universities across the Yangtze River Delta in China have reached an agreement to explore a new teaching cooperation scheme that focuses on student development. It is expected to provide high ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
Vice President of Nigeria Yemi Osinbajo said the current state of education in the country and in Africa generally cannot be divorced from the roles played by the lecturers and university administ ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
A committee formed by the Panjab University vice-chancellor to review the decision to cancel the PhD registration of a scholar whose sexual harassment complaint was found to be fake has found that ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
The teaching and administrative staff from the nine public universities in Uganda have declared an indefinite, comprehensive nationwide strike effective from January 2019. The strike aims to force ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
The education ministry has begun work on improving the quality of education in Cambodia's top five universities after the World Bank agreed to provide US$90 million to fund higher education reform ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
Students from the most affluent parts of Dublin are up to 14 times more likely to progress to university than their counterparts from some schools in the city's most disadvantaged areas, according ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
New research on the cost differences in higher education found that colleges and universities in the United States spend more money on providing courses in pre-professional programmes and high-pay ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
Over the past decade, the 40 researchers at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen have published more than 100 papers in Nature and Science , putting it among the world' ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
Plans to downgrade universities where students receive only a few hours of teaching each week have been quietly shelved. A backlash from vice-chancellors has forced the United Kingdom's higher edu ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
University heads say they favour integrating ultra-Orthodox groups into academic institutions, but strongly oppose legislation on gender segregation, as an Israeli government ministerial committee ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
Leading academic Professor Glyn Davis has disputed claims that free speech and academic inquiry are under threat on university campuses, labelling the issue a "confected calamity" that is ideologi ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
The Academy of Science of South Africa has released a study it says is aimed at creating a more certain regulatory environment for government departments on matters relating to human genetics and ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
More than 1,400 researchers have signed an online letter backing the principles of Plan S, the bold open-access initiative led by research agencies in Europe who say that, by 2020, papers resultin ...December 7, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
Leading Russian universities have called on the national government to expand the existing Project 5-100 - a project that aims to get at least five universities from Russia into the top 100 in one ...December 7, 2018 from Inside Higher Ed | News
A review of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ’s collaborations with Saudi Arabia recommends continuing the university’s relationships with individuals and entities in the kingdom despite concerns about the...December 6, 2018 from Diverse
Thousands of legislators, state superintendents, policymakers and education leaders convened this week for Excellence in Education’s (ExcelinEd) 11th annual National Summit on Education Reform to share innovative strategies, emerging...December 6, 2018 from Diverse
An important idea put forth at the Learfield Intercollegiate Athletics Forum presented by Sports Business Journal (IAF) is that the overall well-being of a college or university and its student-athletes requires an alliance between the...December 5, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
As the United States and China were engaged in normalising relations in the late 1970s, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping became adamant that China should have "a thousand talented scientists" who woul ...December 5, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
An Egyptian state university has said that thesis proposals for masters and doctoral degrees must conform to governmental development plans, raising concerns about academic and research freedoms i ...December 3, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
The Central European University (CEU) has announced that it has been forced to launch all new United States-accredited degree programmes in Vienna, Austria, in September 2019 instead of Budapest i ...December 3, 2018 from University World News Global Edition
The nation's universities and their residential colleges will be answerable to a new independent taskforce responsible for tackling sexual harassment and assault on campus. With claims that ha ...December 1, 2017 from Higher Education
Main image: AFTER a night of drunken flirting, Amber and Tom, two college freshmen at Princeton, end up in bed together. Sex was something they both seemed to want. When Tom had resisted playing a game at a keg party earlier in...November 9, 2017 from Higher Education
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