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St. Bonaventure President Still Hospitalized Jan. 26, 6:18 a.m. Dennis DePerro, the president of St. Bonaventure University, has been hospitalized for COVID-19 since Dec. 29, the university announced Monday. “I know I speak for...January 26, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
High rates of isolation, loneliness and heightened stress and anxiety among students coping with the pandemic are an inescapable aspect of the work of college mental health therapists. As the public health crisis stretches on and...January 26, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Florida State University is starting a master of science in entrepreneurship, social and sustainable enterprises. Grace College is expanding its counseling major to offer concentrations in addictions and child and family counseling. La...January 25, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Last semester Auburn University asked students to get tested for COVID-19 before or upon arrival to campus. The public university in Alabama sent out home testing kits for students, offered on-campus sites and allowed students to...January 25, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Wells College sits on a picturesque tree-filled campus on the shores of New York's Cayuga Lake, with brick buildings dating back to its founding in 1868, a year when a different president, Andrew Johnson, was impeached. It has a...January 25, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Just three days into the Biden administration, the Education Department moved Friday to strip the controversial Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools of its powers to accredit colleges and universities. The...January 22, 2021 from Diverse
As public safety and community well-being come under scrutiny, the scholarship of Dr. Eric L. Piza, associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, provides insight into policing and alternative approaches to...January 22, 2021 from Diverse
As a child of Vietnam War refugees, Dr. Soua Xiong always wanted to make his parents proud. To do so, he sought the route of higher education in hopes of being able to financially support his family. January 22, 2021 from Diverse
About a dozen international students are suing Western Iowa Tech Community College, accusing the school of forced labor and trafficking, NBC News reported. The lawsuit – filed last Monday – accuses the school of coercing students from...January 22, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Joe Biden entered the White House this week with high and wide-ranging expectations from higher education leaders, advocates for survivors of sexual violence and students for how his new administration will require colleges to handle and...January 22, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
President Biden signed an executive order Thursday directing the secretary of education to provide, in consultation with the secretary of health and human services, “evidence-based guidance to institutions of higher education on...January 22, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Giving just one day’s notice to the faculty governance chairs at its universities, the Kansas Board of Regents voted this week to allow for emergency employee terminations and suspensions. Tenured professors are no exception. All...January 22, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Nearly one year into the pandemic that upended higher education, students continue to be concerned about mental health, catching COVID-19 and the quality and challenges of online education. New polling data collected in December for the...January 21, 2021 from Diverse
President Joseph R. Biden had a busy first day in office. Alongside a slew of executive orders and memorandums, he proposed new immigration legislation, celebrated by undocumented students and their advocates.January 21, 2021 from Diverse
Columbia University Executive Vice President for University Life Suzanne Goldberg will be stepping down from her role and taking a temporary leave of absence as law school faculty to join the Biden-Harris administration, the Columbia...January 21, 2021 from Diverse
Anti-racism seems to have found its moment, although Classical Studies in specific has some heavy lifting to undo the role of its legacy as a bastion of white supremacy. Vassar College classics professor Curtis Dozier acknowledges this...January 21, 2021 from Diverse
Morgan State University President Dr. David K. Wilson has offered Amanda Gorman, the poet who penned and recited a poem at Joe Biden’s inauguration, a job as the HBCU’s poet-in-residence, The Baltimore Sun reported. “Ms. Gorman, I...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...