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It’s been nearly three decades since teenagers known as the Central Park Five were convicted for a rape they didn’t commit, nearly two decades since their sentences were vacated and five years since New York City settled with...June 14, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Thirty years ago, the Corcoran Art School and Gallery gained national attention when it canceled an exhibit of photographs, some sexually explicit, by Robert Mapplethorpe, amid political criticism over federal support for the show. Now,...June 14, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Mexican scholars have warned of a breakdown of relations with the country’s president after he was forced to backtrack on strict new measures that would have banned all unauthorized foreign travel by researchers. A...June 14, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Clarkson University Ali Boolani, physical therapy Colby College Denise Bruesewitz, environmental studies Tasha Dunn, geology Daniel LaFave, economics Elizabeth McGrath, physics and astronomy Ronald Peck, biology Sonja Thomas,...June 13, 2019 from Diverse
Dr. Jeremy Haefner, the provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of Denver, has been appointed the school’s 19th chancellor. The appointment, determined at the board of trustees’ recent quarterly meeting, comes after...June 13, 2019 from Diverse
Opportunity zones and STEM opportunities were among key topics discussed Thursday at a meeting of the President’s Board of Advisors on HBCUs hosted by the U.S. Department of Education and the White House Initiative on Historically Black...June 13, 2019 from Diverse
The University of Houston-Downtown will host the first meeting in nearly five years for the newly revived Texas Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (TADOHE). The TADOHE Summer Meeting on June 26 and 27 will bring...June 13, 2019 from Diverse
After faculty began to increasingly notice students using their cell phones to view assignments and course materials, Kentucky State University has now planned for every full-time, first-time student to receive a new laptop computer. The...June 13, 2019 from Diverse
Marygrove College announced this week that it will be closing in December after serving the Detroit area for 92 years. Officials cited declining student enrollment and ongoing financial struggles as reasons for the college’s closure. The...June 13, 2019 from Diverse
With more than half of all manufacturing jobs now going to workers with postsecondary education, it is highly unlikely that laborers with a high school diploma or less can see a return of the days when they held the majority of factory...June 13, 2019 from Diverse
An entire month of teachings on systematic oppression have unfolded right before our eyes; many will miss its intended lesson, however. If you have not heard about the recent plot to remove the first African-American president at Western...June 13, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
All but one of the National Communication Association’s 70 distinguished scholars are white. Most if not all members of the organization agree that’s a problem. But the association’s new plan for selecting its...June 13, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Marygrove College will shut down at the end of the upcoming fall semester after the small Roman Catholic institution in Detroit was unable to escape from enrollment and financial pressures by dropping undergraduate education. College...June 13, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
The list that follows includes private, nonprofit colleges that have closed from 2016 to the present. The list does not include colleges that have merged with or into other institutions. 2016 Burlington College Dowling College St....June 13, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Two community college presidents in California have been either placed on leave or terminated in the last two weeks without reason given by the governing boards. In both instances, the presidents were highly popular, leaving students and...June 12, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Betsy DeVos issued a proposal Tuesday to loosen federal standards for college accreditors, arguing that the changes would spur innovation. The education secretary wants to allow colleges to expedite plans to outsource programs and to add...June 12, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
James Heaps was a fixture at the University of California, Los Angeles . The physician worked in the student health center part-time for nearly 30 years. Later, he would move to UCLA’s medical center, UCLA Health. But last year,...April 20, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Attacks against higher education in Iran have been highlighted in a submission filed with the United Nations' Universal Periodic Review - including wrongful detention and prosecution of academics, ...April 20, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The university sector in the United Kingdom is hugely diverse and that diversity is increasing rapidly. It is not just that devolution to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland has encouraged region ...April 20, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
There has been significant growth in international collaborative research implemented in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past three decades - funded mainly by the United States, United Kingdom, German ...April 20, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Cheating among students has reached unprecedented levels worldwide. Even top universities have raised the alarm: the 2012 Harvard cheating scandal; a significant increase in academic misconduct am ...April 20, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
New Zealand's University of Auckland has been ranked a world leader for its efforts to promote the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But this is only the latest in a remarka ...April 20, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Despite reforms to outdated curricula taking place in many countries across Africa, the continent's youth still get too few chances to learn the type of 21st century skills that will secure them e ...April 20, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
According to a survey by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, or NACAC, 38.5% of United States institutions reported using agents in 2017, up from 30% in 2010. This means th ...April 20, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Xenophobia, radicalisation, anti-intellectualism, hate speech, populism, globalisation of the labour market, environmental change, global warming... These are only some of the major issues facing ...April 20, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
In recent years, Singapore's globally recognised and 'world-class' universities have done exceptionally well in science and engineering, and less well in the humanities and social sciences. This i ...April 20, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
What is success? How do we know if we are successful? These are questions that international higher education professionals, and higher education institutions, are reflecting upon around the world ...April 20, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Curriculum internationalisation has become more of a focus for higher education institutions in recent years. Establishing a strong sense of collaboration between faculty and international educato ...April 20, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Does a Eurasian Higher Education Area exist? The Eurasian Higher Education Area is a concept that recently entered the lexicon of the post-Soviet political space. It refers to a higher education r ...April 20, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
'Internationalisation' is one of those words which has a fine history that is becoming blurred. It is with some cultural pride perhaps that specialist historians point to the earliest European uni ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
More than 100 student groups from universities and high schools across Taiwan have formed a coalition against 'fake news', in particular to counter state-sponsored media campaigns from the Chinese ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The Commission on Higher Education of the Philippines urged all public universities and colleges to move their opening of classes to August, starting in the 2019-20 academic year, in order to faci ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
As people around the world watched images of the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in horror, the University of Notre Dame in Indiana received about 5,000 tweets, reposts or questions about wh ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Gabon has suspended an overhaul of university grants that last week sparked three days of student protests and led to shuttered schools, with Education Minister Michel Menga M'Essonne announcing l ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, may have jumped the gun when it put Noblegen Inc's future home on its latest campus map, but at least the move was on-trend, writes Adam Bisby for The ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Boston University in the United States is investigating sexual harassment complaints made against a prominent Antarctic geologist by two of his former graduate students. The women allege that Davi ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Most enrolments in South Africa's 26 public higher education institutions in 2017 were recorded for science, engineering and technology studies, growing from 237,058 students in 2009 to 310,115 st ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Most South African university students are completing their undergraduate degrees after a shocking seven years despite the government pumping ZAR20 billion (US$1.4 billion) annually into study fun ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The Federal Circuit Court of Australia has found that James Cook University acted unlawfully in dismissing a physics professor for his criticisms of colleagues' work, writes Fergus Hunter for T ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The spate of attacks on students on campuses has prompted calls for police to have a presence on university grounds, something unthinkable during the South African campus upheavals of the 1980s, w ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Professor Asher Cohen, president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said the university will continue to cooperate with the Israel Defense Forces, rejecting criticism of it winning a tender to ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA) has serious concerns over what it terms the federal government's anti-education policies, budgetary cuts and closur ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
An increasing number of United States undergraduate colleges - looking to attract more applicants and to diversify their applicant pools - have been going test optional in admissions, writes Scott ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Georgetown University will likely be the first higher education institution in the United States to require students to pay a reparation fee benefiting descendants of slavery, writes Christian Ell ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
According to official figures released on 15 April by the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service, 98 programmes offered by at least 40 universities did not get any placements, w ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A select number of Australian private schools are accused of 'gaming the system' to get their students into some of the nation's most coveted university courses, writes Gavin Fernando for news ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Foreign students studying at South Korean universities are expressing frustration with institutions charging them unfairly higher tuition fees compared with their domestic counterparts, whose educ ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
An artist group in the Philippines has called on universities and cultural offices to declare the Marcoses (family members of former president Ferdinand Marcos) 'personae non gratae' and bar them ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A breakdown by education, according to figures released on 15 April by the Turkish Statistical Institute, shows that more than a fourth of the 4.7 million jobless people in Turkey hold higher educ ...April 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
One of Australia's leading tertiary education institutions, Monash University, has signed a AU$100 million (US$71 million) deal with China, despite Australia's decision to tighten foreign investme ...