State-owned universities could bar deadly weapons from ‘sensitive areas’
A proposal to limit where people can carry deadly weapons at Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities is flawed ...
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Warning on Academic Extremism
Academic extremism risks damaging the standing of Australia's universities, the country's education minister, Christopher Pyne, warned last week.
About-Face on Rankings
Syracuse University, which suffered on college ranking lists as it admitted more poor and minority students who didn't necessarily have the grades and SAT scores of other applicants, is looking to reverse that rankings slide under its incoming chancellor.
A’s for athletes, but charges of fraud at North Carolina
In the summer of 2011, 19 undergraduates at the University of North Carolina signed up for a lecture course called AFAM 280: Blacks in North Carolina.
Syrian refugee schools flourish in southern Turkey
In a classroom in southern Turkey, 8-year-old children proudly display their colored-pencil drawings. They
China graduate school entrance exam begins
Candidates wait to enter an exam hall in Shijiazhuang, North China's Hebei province on Jan 4, 2014. The national graduate school entrance examination this year kicked off on Saturday
Ohio State’s Calculus class goes viral
Relatively slow to embrace online courses, Ohio State University started offering free, noncredit e-classes a year ago, and it has been blown away by the response.
German coalition treaty aims for 350,000 foreign students by 2020
After three months of negotiations, a coalition agreement between Germany’s biggest political parties has been reached.
College police forces increasingly expand reach
The police officers who patrol America's colleges are empowered these days to do far more than respond to campus emergencies.
Go Easy on MOOCs
President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has a message for the federal government and regional accreditors: Go easy on the MOOCs.
