Arizona vows focus on quality in major online expansion
Absorbing troubled online institution, university pledges $225 million investment
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Virtual gap year allows students to slow down, move forward
At Champlain College in Vermont, a virtual 15-week, for-credit program for 2020 high school graduates allows students to explore college life, holistic well-being and career options through real-time instruction and collaboration with professors and mentors.
Catfish: COVID-19
Scholars mourned the COVID-19-related death of a scientist who said she’d been forced to teach during the pandemic. Then they realized she probably wasn’t real.
Fordham U. sued by Chinese immigrant student it punished for posting pro-freedom message
A Chinese immigrant student has sued Fordham University after it punished him for posting an Instagram photo meant to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in China.
Republican lawmakers to universities: Show us your foreign funding
Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and James Comer (R-Ky.) submitted a letter to six universities, requesting full disclosure of foreign funding.
A crisis is looming for U.S. colleges — and not just because of the coronavirus
Dozens of colleges and universities nationwide started 2020 already under financial stress. They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments.
Extra tuition-free time on Campus
Two colleges -- St. Norbert College and Pacific Lutheran University -- will offer students an extra term or two without charge. The programs aim to make up for subpar on-campus experiences amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
California students call to remove Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher busts
A petition calls for Chapman University to remove busts of conservative icons.
Economics professor barred from teaching class critical of Marxism to student body
‘If faculty want to preach that Marxism is a triumph of human thought, so be it. If other faculty want to argue that actually it was a disaster, and a crime against humanity, this view should no longer be fanatically censored’
Research relevant to China ‘cast aside in race for citations’
Social scientists should be judged on their impact, while journals should make room for under-represented voices, say academics
