• Live Updates: Latest News on Coronavirus and Higher Education
    April 14, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
    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...
  • UM Dearborn 'closed the door' on remote proctoring
    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...
  • NCAA threatens to move events out of states with anti-transgender athlete legislation
    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...
  • Students struggling but not seeking campus mental health support
    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...
  • Academic library leaders concerned about diversity, equity, inclusion
    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...
  • New presidents or provosts: Medgar Evers Millersville Northwest State Ohio Dominican Oklahoma City SFASU Trinity
    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....
  • Morris Brown College Receives Accreditation Candidacy
    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...
  • Delaware State University Creates Genome Analysis Center
    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...
  • Dr. Donald J. Green Appointed Point Park University President
    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...
  • Former Tennessee Titans Star Eddie George to Be Tennessee State Head Football Coach
    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...
  • Lisa Howie Appointed First Chief Investment Officer at Smith College
    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...
  • Scholars Wonder at the Trajectory of Expanding Social Justice Programs
    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...
  • Faculty salaries decreased this year
    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
    April 13, 2021 from Inside Higher Ed | News
    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...
  • Will free summer classes and scholarships bring students back to community colleges?
    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,...
  • CDC funds info clearinghouse for colleges fighting COVID
    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...
  • Miami-Dade College Partners With Correlation One and SoftBank to Meet Data Science Industry Needs
    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...
  • New higher education literacies for a sustainable future
    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 ...
  • Court moves beyond the past in favouring English
    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 ...
  • The importance of developing cultural intelligence
    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 ...
  • A breathtaking shift from autocracy to an open HE system
    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 ...
  • Why a new higher education review is a waste of time
    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 ...
  • Economic growth, political stability fuel research rise
    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 ...
  • Denmark tops neighbours on funding of study support
    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 ...
  • The double bind faced by black research applicants
    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 ...
  • Gandhi statue faces backlash from student activists
    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 ...
  • Another student murder, this time for being 'a zombie'
    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 ...
  • No equality for black and minority ethnic academics - Study
    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 ...
  • Private universities also want access to CSR funding
    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 ...
  • Californian public universities to offer medication abortion
    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 ...
  • Fewer Syrians in Lebanon are reaching universities
    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 ...
  • Huawei signs deal with ministry of higher education
    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 ...
  • Mentally disabled students seek university access
    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 ...
  • Review recommends simpler HE provider categories
    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 ...
  • Calls to scrap graduation fees at Scottish universities
    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 ...
  • House Democrats unveil college affordability plan
    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 ...
  • Minister vows to close shoddy universities
    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 ...
  • Call for management reshuffle at universities
    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 ...
  • Record numbers of students, but no government funding rise
    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 ...
  • New Zealand universities face fines after dormitory death
    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 ...
  • Survey reveals disturbing results on campus sexual violence
    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 ...
  • Academics criticise 'harassment' of university whistleblower
    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 ...
  • Learned society pilots transitional open access deal
    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 ...
  • Russian citizenship for foreign students who graduate
    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 ...
  • Quality doctoral programmes are vital for development
    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 ...
  • Nigerian students caught in political, economic crossfire
    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 ...
  • Justice minister resigns as admissions scandal widens
    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 ...
  • Dormitory killing highlights campus political rivalries
    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 ...
  • Universities accused of aiding mass surveillance in China
    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 ...
  • He said, she said: Sexual politics on stage
    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...
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