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Facing challenging finances and a demographic cliff, Ohio's Oberlin College is mulling a strategic plan that would trim 100 students from its renowned music conservatory while adding the same number to its liberal arts program. The...April 18, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
A little more than two years ago, Middlebury College students shouted down Charles Murray , the controversial writer whom many accuse of espousing racist ideas, preventing him from giving a public lecture at the college. While Murray was...April 18, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
WASHINGTON -- General education is not simply filler for a student’s time in college beyond the major. Done well, gen ed can answer students’ questions about what college is, and why it matters. Gen ed is also a great...April 18, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
On April 16, 2007, a gunman murdered 32 students and professors at Virginia Tech. Other mass shootings (including on college campuses) have followed, but the words "Virginia Tech" evoke a particular sense of the shock of...April 18, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Plans for lavishly funded “great books” courses are under a cloud amid academic revolts at two Australian universities. The executive and the governing council of the University of Wollongong have closed ranks over Vice...April 18, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Converse College : Carla Harris, vice chair and managing director at Morgan Stanley. Franklin & Marshall College : Rahel Nardos, director of global health for Oregon Health and Science University’s department of obstetrics and...April 17, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. -- Ask the many assessment haters in higher education who is most to blame for what they perceive as the fixation on trying to measure student learning outcomes, and they are likely to put accreditors at the top of...April 17, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Despite faculty opposition, the leader of Connecticut’s public colleges and universities is moving forward with plans to consolidate the state's 12 two-year institutions. Mark Ojakian, president of the Connecticut State...April 17, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Camille Paglia has long been a controversial figure in and out of academe -- best known in the world of scholarship for Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence From Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale University Press). She is also a professor...April 17, 2019 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Last summer New York University 's medical school, where the sticker price on tuition was more than $55,000 a year, announced that all current and new students would henceforth receive full-tuition scholarships . One question raised...April 14, 2019 from Diverse
Civil and women’s rights activist Anita Hill, whose voice has been widely used in academia, politics and in the media regarding gender, race and equality, has been named the commencement speaker for Wellesley College’s 141st commencement...April 14, 2019 from Diverse
Leaders from the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) believe that it is a “moral imperative” for the institutions to further their support of the millions of students who show up at their campuses.April 14, 2019 from Diverse
Morehouse College—the nation’s only historically Black all-men’s school in the nation—will begin admitting transgender students who identify as men in Fall 2020.April 13, 2019 from Diverse
Some African-American studies professors are praising Georgetown University undergraduate students for passing a referendum to assess students a semesterly fee to fund reparations for descendants of nearly 300 slaves sold by the...April 13, 2019 from Diverse
Fisk University has announced that civil rights activist the Reverend Al Sharpton will be the commencement speaker for its 145th commencement ceremony scheduled on Monday, May 6 at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Nashville. “It is an honor...April 12, 2019 from Diverse
San Francisco State University (SFSU) has named Dr. Amy Sueyoshi as the first woman dean of the College of Ethnic Studies. Sueyoshi has served in the interim role for the college since January 2018. “Professor Sueyoshi has done a...April 12, 2019 from Diverse
Delgado Community College has appointed Dr. Larissa Littleton-Steib as its next chancellor, effective July 1. She will succeed Dr. Joan Davis, who stepped down from the position in August after four years to begin a new role as vice...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Tanyaradzwa Chinyukwi, 24, grew up in an environment in southern Zimbabwe, where life was tough and girls were always looked down upon. She was born in Masvingo and from the age of two to eigh ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Following an outcry from faculty and students, Cambridge University has rescinded its offer of a visiting fellowship to controversial academic Jordan Peterson, who refuses to refer to transgender ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
With new funding for work-integrated learning, a reduction in the interest charged on student loans, and a new building for the country's first Northern university, both students and post-secondar ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The national food bank initiative, launched in December last year to help the poor and solve the problem of food wastage, has been extended to university campuses in an effort to help students fro ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Academics are opposed to proposed legislation in Florida that would require public universities to survey students' and faculty members' political beliefs annually, writes Colleen Flaherty for ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A new report, which claims that too many people are being admitted into PhD programmes, says entry requirements for PhD programmes in Australian universities need reform, reports Study Internat ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron have overseen the signing of bilateral agreements aimed at deepening cooperation in higher education and research, write ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Starting university is becoming less of a daunting prospect for a host of Melbourne secondary students. Increasingly, high schools across the city are teaming up with universities to give Australi ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Minister of Higher Education Khaled Abdel Ghaffar announced last week that campaigns to detect drug usage will be carried out through a clear plan for Egypt's universities, aimed at targeting stud ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Just a few weeks before the end of the first academic term at higher learning institutions, tens of thousands of students are still unsure whether they will be granted funding to study. And scores ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The National Union of Students (NUS) in Britain has warned that working-class students are being forced to turn to loan sharks after being confronted with a series of 'hidden costs' when they arri ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Zimbabwe has set an ambitious path to upgrade its higher learning institutions to world-class facilities that are fully equipped with shopping malls, cafeterias, hotels and modern student quarters ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Teachers and students across India are concerned about the new guidelines for women's studies centres issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC). While the guidelines do not explicitly allud ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
According to the Syrian government news agency, Russia is offering 500 scholarships to Syrian students in masters degree and doctoral programmes for the 2019 academic year, among other measures to ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The Australian government's foreign influence transparency scheme faces an early test as universities ignore pressure to register their Confucius Institutes - the Chinese government-funded and adm ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The United Kingdom's education secretary is calling on payments firms such as PayPal to block transactions for essay writing firms, in a bid to beat university cheats, writes Sean Coughlan for ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The Trump administration urged Congress to put a cap on student loan borrowing in order to encourage responsible borrowing, one of several proposals for updating the Higher Education Act in the Un ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A government investigation has been launched in Japan to probe the disappearance of about 700 foreign students who have stopped attending classes, and have been out of contact since last April, be ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Currently it is cool to be in tech, says Anna Veronika Dorogush, head of machine learning for Russian multinational internet company Yandex. A positive image and role models are key to achieving g ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Globalisation and neoliberalism have dramatically changed the ways we view health and education services. In these two arenas, we see the most striking social inequalities and these extend through ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
I placed a gentleman's bet with myself that the number of young Vietnamese studying in Canada would top 20,000 last year. Based on the latest statistics for 2018 released by ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently published a new policy concerning s ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The internationalisation of higher education is a mainstream trend in the development of higher education, with international student mobility as an important indicator. In 2018, the Institute ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
It's sometimes difficult to recall that the pathway sector - which offers alternative forms of entry into university courses such as study and language preparation programmes - is a relative newco ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
In a live televised announcement that caught everyone by surprise, Kazakhstan's Nursultan Nazarbayev announced on 19 March that, after almost three decades at the helm of the country, ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Academics in Germany, Switzerland and Austria have joined forces in support of the 'Fridays for Future' school strikes addressing climate change. They call for urgent action to halt global warming ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The Medical Council of India (MCI), a statutory body with the responsibility for establishing and maintaining high standards of medical education in India, has started installing closed-circuit te ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The Swedish Association for University Teachers and Researchers (SULF) has reported the Swedish Migration Agency to the Parliamentary Ombudsman for misconduct in breach of the rules when expelling ...March 23, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The executive order that United States President Donald Trump signed on 21 March, designed to protect free speech on college campuses, was less harsh than many critics had feared. Still, controver ...March 22, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
In a week of deepening anxiety and turmoil over Brexit, universities in the United Kingdom have been given a stronger signal of what they will miss out on in the event of a no-deal Brexit but also ...March 21, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Forty-six per cent of first-degree students from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC) have done or witnessed cyberbullying, according to Chile's first study on cyberbullying in univer ...March 21, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A student at a college in Pakistan's Punjab province killed his professor by stabbing him with knife over alleged blasphemy on 20 March. The student, Khateeb Hussain, has been arrested by the poli ...March 21, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Why are Nigeria's universities in such a sorry state? Some would say it has to do with just one word - money. Sadly this is part of the reason. But not entirely. Nigeria's universities have bee ...