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University of Dayton Freshman Dies of COVID-19 Complications Oct. 23, 2 p.m. An 18-year-old freshman at the University of Dayton died yesterday, reportedly of COVID-19-related complications. The Roman Catholic university in Ohio...October 23, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Colbie Lofton’s first week of classes at Appalachian State University is sealed in her mind. Lofton, who is Black, asked her macroeconomics professor a question during class and heard someone sitting behind her say, "I guess...October 23, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Talk to higher education experts about what the Education Department could do under a Biden administration, and they expect, at the least, another volley of the match that would stretch through three presidencies. The Obama...October 23, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
On June 3, in the midst of national reckoning and unrest over racial discrimination and policing, a group of Northwestern University students circulated a petition asking their university to cut ties with local police and disband...October 23, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
As the leading Anglophone higher education systems have pushed back or abolished mandatory retirement ages in recent decades, the practice has remained relatively entrenched in Asia. Mainland China, for example, has a retirement policy...October 23, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Starting Out: Thomas College is starting a campaign to raise $27 million. It has already raised $26 million. Finishing Up: University of La Verne has completed a campaign, raising a total of $128 million. The campaign...October 22, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
For two and a half years, scholar and social activist Melina Abdullah traveled weekly from her home in Los Angeles to Sacramento -- uncompensated trips that took a personal toll and kept her apart from her three children. She was...October 22, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Department of Homeland Security officials sent a clear message Wednesday that they are scrutinizing foreign students' and colleges' compliance with the rules of a program that allows international students to stay in the U.S. to...October 22, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Arbitration over contract violations and salary freezes began several weeks ago between Rutgers University and its faculty and staff unions. The step illustrates the tumult between the university and its unions as they try to agree on...October 22, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Aditya Jhaveri and Sun Woo Park, student government leaders for the Emory University College of Arts and Sciences in Atlanta, have been working for the past two years to get university administrators to cancel classes on Election Day and...October 20, 2020 from Diverse
While the number of new hires has decreased in the COVID-19 era, the vision of more diverse and inclusive faculty remains decisive.October 20, 2020 from Diverse
After the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Dr. Sarah A. Soule, the Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), noticed that many Black faculty and staff members were being...October 20, 2020 from Diverse
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) put a national spotlight on the Black student debt crisis in the U.S. and suggested how to combat it. The nation’s oldest civil rights organization, held a...October 20, 2020 from Diverse
The University of Austin Texas (UT Austin) and eight other research universities have recently been granted a 3-and-a-half-year award funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to make the pathway of increasing diversity in academia...October 20, 2020 from Diverse
The Oregon Department of Corrections will end most of its adult education contracts with Blue Mountain Community College (BMCC) and other Oregon community colleges in 2021, according to The East Oregonian. While the 2-year schools have...October 20, 2020 from Diverse
Five faculty members from The University of Pennsylvania have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) — one of the nation’s highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Dr. William Beltran of the school of...Tufts Administration Receives Backlash from Faculty Senate about Handling of Dental School Furloughs
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In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Tufts University has laid off several employees and reduced salaries from its School of Dental Medicine (TUSDM), which drew backlash from the Faculty Senate, according to Tufts Daily News. The...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...