I am not teaching, but I nonetheless think of this time of year as the swearing–at–the–learning management system period. The swearing at the LMS commenced from the first moment of logging on and starting the inevitable jousting as I...
A new study from the enrollment-management consulting firm EAB found that parents and guardians helping students decide where to attend college are concerned mostly with cost and debt. The report, based on a survey of over 1,600 parents, guardians...
Amid waves of college closures, a new report from the National Center for Education Statistics released Wednesday found that the number of higher education institutions eligible for federal financial aid shrank by 1.7 percent in the 2023–24 academic year compared...
Rafael Moron and Lexy Modrono were used to their professors at Florida International University either glossing over policies concerning the newly emerging uses of generative artificial intelligence or avoiding discussions of AI entirely. “In very few classes it was...
On its quest to snag a prestigious national research ranking, Louisiana State University is making it harder for librarians to keep tenure. “It’s not appropriate for librarians to receive tenure,” said Roy Haggerty, LSU’s provost, The Louisiana Illuminator reported...
Two U.S. senators said Wednesday they were “stunned” that New College of Florida has discarded their book, Nine and Counting: The Women of the Senate, from its collection. Washington senator Patty Murray, a Democrat, and Maine senator Susan Collins,...
A former Bloomsburg University dean will be awarded $3.9 million after a jury found that he was fired in retaliation for helping an administrative assistant report that she had been sexually harassed by the university’s president, according to The Citizens’...
The political attack on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in higher education continues as both the University of Kentucky and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln announced Tuesday that they will dissolve their DEI offices. Kentucky president Eli Capilouto...
The incoming cohort of first-year students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is less diverse than in previous years, according to demographic data the institution released Wednesday. MIT is the first highly selective institution to release such data, which...
At the start of a new school year, tensions run high. An election looms. Markets waver. The war in Gaza grinds on. Ukraine invades Russia. And all of it comes back to campuses, where students face each other across...