Big variation across Europe in cost of publishing with ‘big five’
Analysis of publishing deals across Europe highlights different costs faced by country-level consortia
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Majority of students value ‘safety of undocumented students’ over journalistic integrity, poll finds
Harvard University’s student newspaper recently made headlines after receiving backlash for daring to reach out to ICE for comment about a student protest against the agency.
She was expelled for using prescribed medical marijuana, now she’s suing the college
Colleges are becoming a battleground in the conflict between federal and state marijuana laws as students who use medical pot challenge decades-old campus drug policies.
NYU refuses to share its files in kangaroo-court lawsuit, tells student to seek gossip instead
When an accused student sought evidence to prove that his due process rights were violated and that anti-male bias played a role in the verdict, his university had a novel suggestion.
India must curb its entrance examination industry
A single test per state could help tackle India’s costly and complex admissions system
Examples of Excelencia Recipients
Recipients of Excelencia's annual awards brought up several themes during panels at the annual ALASS Institute
Trump Education Official to Resign and Call for Mass Student-Loan Forgiveness
A. Wayne Johnson, appointed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, calls the student-loan system ‘fundamentally broken’
NYU student paper yanks ad promoting College Republicans event
The editor-in-chief of the NYU student newspaper pulled an advertisement purchased by Rich Lowry, stating that it would have “marginalized people of color on our campus.”
How these Christian schools use campus policy to cultivate Christian sexual virtues
Though most universities and colleges take a more-or-less hands-off approach when it comes to student relationships, numerous private Christian universities use their campus policies to ensure their students, while attending school there, abide by Christian sexual values.
Rules for Making Big Deals
Dozens of institutions have endorsed a set of guiding principles for negotiating contracts that support open-access practices with scholarly publishers.
