#StopIslam, Trump 2016 written on University of Michigan campus
In chalk, the messages "#Stop Islam" and "Trump 2016" appeared on the University of Michigan's Diag Wednesday.
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The Shrinking Ph.D. Job Market
As number of new Ph.D.s rises, the percentage of people earning a doctorate without a job waiting for them is up.
New Plan for Teachers’ Colleges Could Rock Israeli Higher Education
What appears to be a bureaucratic change — moving responsibility for funding teachers’ colleges from the Education Ministry to the Council for Higher Education in Israel — could change the face of higher education in Israel.
Streamlining Citations
New MLA Handbook seeks to make citing sources from a variety of media easier and more commonsensical.
Exam by Wikipedia replaces ‘increasingly unappealing’ essays
Many academics spend their time telling students not to use Wikipedia in their coursework, but one university has taken a different approach.
State audit: UC lowered admission standards for out-of-state students
As high school seniors endure the grueling springtime ritual of college admission decisions, the state auditor on Tuesday released a report affirming the frustrations of many California families:
Grade Inflation, Higher and Higher
The most common grade is A -- at all kinds of colleges. But while grade point averages are increasing at four-year institutions, that's not the case at community colleges.
UMd. won’t give up study documents until review is complete
University of Maryland says it will not release records related to a study linking a specialty chocolate milk to faster concussion recovery until an internal board has completed a review of the issue ...
Professor ‘must apologise over blog post to keep job’
A year ago, Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, moved to revoke the tenure of and fire a controversial professor for statements he made about a graduate instructor, with her name, on his blog.
Louisville students could get up to $5K for college
About 90 kindergartners and first-graders at Portland Elementary could graduate high school with as much as $5,000 to put toward higher education, thanks to a new college fund announced Monday.
