Call for global overhaul of research evaluation gaining traction
‘Hong Kong Principles’ aim to tackle ‘perverse incentives’ in metrics-based policies and university promotion criteria
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A Reckoning for 2U, and OPMs?
After online program management company 2U talked openly about its challenges, the company’s stock plummeted. Analysts say the company, and others like it, are down but not out.
Professor wins settlement blocking forced union dues
Evidently, if you’re a dues-paying member of a California teachers’ union, you can’t check out any time you want. At least that’s what the union bosses declared.
‘Greedy colleges’ not off the hook for latest college admissions scam, scholar says
Wealthy parents are giving up custody of their own children in order to receive financial aid and evade extra costs.
A Welcome Message, or a Warning?
A State Department official says Chinese students are welcome. She also speaks of Chinese propaganda and influence activities on U.S. campuses, and of academic espionage.
Professor runs for Parliament to save universities from themselves: ‘We have a crisis of courage’
David Haskell tried to promote freedom of expression at Canada’s Wilfrid Laurier University by working from the inside, with little to show for it.
Prof: The concept of American exceptionalism is ‘absurd’
A Simmons University professor dismissed the concept of American exceptionalism as "absurd," when commenting on the election of Boris Johnson as prime minister in the U.K.
Chinese Nationalists bring threat of violence to Australia universities
The Chinese nationalists disrupting pro-Hong Kong democracy rallies at the University of Queensland arrived 300 strong, with a speaker to blast China’s national anthem. They deferred to a leader in a pink shirt. And their tactics included violence.
Trump renews amorphous free speech threat to campuses
US president’s agitations seen as having political rather than practical goals
In Virginia, 80 percent of the highest-paid public employees are in higher education
Nearly 80 percent of the highest paid state employees in the state of Virginia are public university staffers
