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Image: Michigan Locks Out 718 Students From Non-Residential Buildings April 14, 6:15 a.m. The University of Michigan has locked out 718 students from non-residential buildings for not getting tested for COVID-19, The Detroit Free...April 14, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Image: Many colleges started using remote third-party proctoring services after the shift to remote teaching forced by the pandemic last spring. Not the University of Michigan Dearborn, which took the option of remote proctoring...April 14, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Image: Leaders of the National Collegiate Athletic Association are throwing their economic weight and influence behind transgender athletes ability to participate in college sports by threatening to pull lucrative championship...April 14, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
47% of students say they could have used some or a lot more support from their college during the past year. Image: For many students, spending the year with COVID has felt like being on a sinking ship, desperately searching for a...April 14, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Image: The resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 had a measurable impact on library leaders’ appreciation of the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion, a recent survey of academic library leaders from...April 14, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Kenneth R. Evans , president of Lamar University, in Texas, has been chosen as president of Oklahoma City University. Connie Gallaher , president of OhioHealth at Home, has been named president of Ohio Dominican University. Gail E....April 13, 2021 from Diverse
In 2002, financial mismanagement and debt led to the rescinding of Morris Brown College’s accreditation. Now, almost 20 years later, the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS) granted the historically Black...April 13, 2021 from Diverse
Delaware State University has created its new Delaware Nucleotide Analysis (DNA) Core Center, Delaware Business Times reported. The center will allow researchers to analyze an entire genome sample. Dr. Jung-lim Lee is associate professor...April 13, 2021 from Diverse
Dr. Donald J. Green has been appointed president of Point Park University, effective this summer, Trib Live reported. Green is currently the president of Georgia Highlands College and has served at a number of institutions...April 13, 2021 from Diverse
Former Tennessee Titans star Eddie George has been named Tennessee State’s head football coach, ESPN reported. George, 47, starred as a running back for the Tennessee Titans from 1996 to 2003. George does not have much coaching...April 13, 2021 from Diverse
Lisa Howie has been appointed Smith College’s first chief investment officer. Howie is currently a director in the Yale University Investments Office. There, she is responsible for managing the school’s foreign public and private equity...April 13, 2021 from Diverse
George Floyd was killed by police a few miles from Dr. Valerie Chepp’s house. And as her students went out into the streets to protest this past summer, she completely redesigned her senior capstone course for the fall. Chepp is the...April 13, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Image: Average faculty pay fell by 0.4 percent this year, adjusting for inflation, the first such decrease since 2011-12, according to preliminary data from the American Association of University Professors’ annual...Study suggests American colleges explain diversity in a way that appeals to white, not Black, people
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Image: Why do colleges have diversity plans? It may seem an obvious question. After all, most colleges have diversity plans and frequently quote from them. When there is an ugly racial incident on campus, colleges administrators...April 13, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Image: Enrollment at community colleges continued its downward slide this semester, according to the latest report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Enrollment fell by 9.5 percent since last spring,...April 13, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Image: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded the American College Health Association $450,000 to launch a new Higher Education COVID-19 Community of Practice aimed at sharing information across campuses about...April 12, 2021 from Diverse
In an effort to address skills and opportunity gaps within the workforce, technology company Correlation One established Data Science For All/Empowerment (DS4A)—a program that offers free data analytics training, networking and career...October 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
As the world becomes more interconnected and interdependent, nations face increasing pressure to improve their political, economic, social, technological and environmental infrastructures in order ...October 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The South African Constitutional Court's recent unanimous decision upholding Stellenbosch University's policy favouring English is important in both substance and tone for its evolving narrative o ...October 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
As two of the top host countries in the world, the United States and United Kingdom have long benefited from attracting large numbers of international students. Internationalisation dialogue and p ...October 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The higher education landscape in Uzbekistan, Central Asia, has been changing rapidly over the past three years. Since the passing of Uzbekistan's first president, Islam Karimov, in 2016, who had ...October 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
In the first 100 days of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second administration, the government has launched yet another rethink of higher education policies and priorities through the draft ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Regional growth and more political stability in the Asia region, allowing for greater investment in education and research, have reduced brain drain of researchers and academics and led to a rapid ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A new report shows there is a well-developed funding system in the Nordic region compared to other regions in the world but with significant differences between the countries, with the highest lev ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Last week the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published an analysis finding that the agency i ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Mahatma Gandhi is revered across the world for his non-violent campaign for Indian independence and was nominated five times for the Nobel Peace Prize. But plans to unveil a statue in his memory i ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A University of KwaZulu-Natal student, Khanyile Nzimande, has apparently confessed to killing his friend whom he described as "a zombie that blocked his fortune" in a video circulating on social m ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Analysis shows that black and minority ethnic (BME) academic staff at universities in the United Kingdom are paid less than their white counterparts and are considerably less likely to hold the mo ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Some private universities may approach the government of India to propose that contributions to privately funded higher education be included within the ambit of corporate social responsibility (C ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill on 11 October requiring medication abortion services at public state universities starting in 2023, writes Caroline Kelly for CNN . "As othe ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Eight years after Syrians began to enter Lebanon in flight from an uprising that turned into civil war, young refugees continue to struggle for integration into the Lebanese education system at ev ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Vincent Sun, CEO of Huawei Egypt, and Dr Mohamed El Tayeb, Egypt's assistant minister of higher education, signed a memorandum of understanding on 15 October on strategic cooperation in informatio ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A campaign calling on the education ministry and parliament to produce new regulations for students with mental disabilities who want to study at Turkish universities has drawn support from nearly ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A review into how higher education providers are categorised has recommended a simplified system that aims to benefit students and protect Australia's international reputation, reports Mirage N ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A call to scrap graduation fees at Scottish universities and colleges was backed by members of the Scottish National Party (SNP) at the party's recent conference, writes Lewis McKenzie for Glas ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
United States House of Representatives Democrats have unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the federal higher education law, aiming to increase access to college for low-income and minority students wi ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A number of universities are staring at imminent closure as the state moves to streamline higher learning in Kenya after Education Cabinet Secretary Professor George Magoha gave yet another indica ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Noted educationist Dr Akbar Ali Khan has called for a reshuffle in the administration of all universities in Bangladesh, aiming to stop any repeat of the brutal incident in Bangladesh University o ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A record number of over 300,000 bachelor and masters degree students enrolled at Dutch universities and universities of applied sciences for the 2019-20 academic year, according to preliminary fig ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
New Zealand universities and dorm accommodation providers were told on 15 October they could face hefty fines following a gruesome case in which a student's decomposing body lay undetected in his ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
About one quarter of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted, according to a disturbing new national survey in the United States, which found that at one institution, the Universit ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Academics from across the globe have condemned Murdoch University's treatment of a whistleblower who spoke out about international student exploitation, saying they are "appalled" at what they see ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The Microbiology Society has become the first small learned society publisher to strike a transitional open access deal through Jis ...October 17, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The government plans to open up Russian citizenship to many foreign students after graduation and ease restrictions on side jobs for foreign students studying in Russia. In addition, the quota ...October 17, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Ghana's National Accreditation Board was established in 1993 by the government of Ghana for four primary purposes. One is giving official quality approval to both public and private tertiary e ...October 17, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Nigerian students in Benin are at the receiving end of an unstable economic situation and fractured political relations between the two neighbours. Three weeks after the Seme-Krake international b ...October 15, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
South Korea's embattled justice minister, Cho Kuk, has resigned just 35 days after he was appointed to the ministerial post amid an outcry over alleged admissions favours for his daughter and the ...October 15, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Violent student protests have erupted in Bangladesh over the killing of an engineering student by members of the ruling party's student organisation, the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL). Several B ...October 15, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Leading universities across Australia have been accused of helping the Chinese Communist Party develop mass surveillance and military technologies. The claims made on Monday night add to growi ...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...