PSU punishes prof who duped academic journal with hoax ‘dog rape’ article
Portland State University professor Peter Boghossian and a small team set out to test the legitimacy of academic journals by submitting fake articles.
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Australian Universities face foreign influence probe amid China contract revelations
The government has ramped up scrutiny of universities' compliance with newly introduced foreign influence laws following revelations about China's authority over Confucius Institute education centres on Australian campuses.
Penn State retroactively redefined ‘consent’ after accused student won a new hearing: lawsuit
No restraining order from judge, but university agrees to reschedule hearing
Mizzou may owe MILLIONS after rejecting deceased conservative donor’s wishes
Hillsdale College is suing the University of Missouri for allegedly neglecting the wishes of Mizzou graduate and conservative donor Sherlock Hibbs’ $5 million gift.
ED had hand in college chain’s collapse, documents show
Dream Center Education Holdings, a subsidiary of a Los Angeles-based megachurch, had no experience in higher education when it petitioned the federal Education Department to let it take over a troubled chain of for-profit trade schools.
California students caught in the middle
Years-long fight over federal rules governing state standards for online education could imperil standing of tens of thousands of students.
Palestinian university fights Israeli visa restrictions
Rising numbers of overseas academics have been hit with visa denials or refused entry to Palestine, scholars say
Prof: ‘When I said MAGA teens are modern day Hitlerjugend, I meant it’
A University of Mississippi professor who was recently granted tenure says he "meant it" when he called teenage Trump supporters "modern day Hiterjugend."
U.S. investment in African university fails as China advances
When the U.S. government’s private-investment arm teamed with New York-based real-estate investor W.P. Carey Inc. to finance the expansion of a prestigious university in Ghana, it was meant to demonstrate a novel for-profit funding model for development projects in Africa.
