‘How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education’
New book outlines how rich donors have become more assertive about how their money should be used and explores the costs to higher ed.
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Ipswich school reports ‘pupil aged 30’ to Home Office
A secondary school pupil is being investigated after parents and classmates claimed he was as old as 30.
Universities wary of Trump’s move against gender choice
Academics express anxiety about ultimate reach of proposed policy tying gender to birth
How Americans Feel About Affirmative Action In Higher Education
The Harvard trial wraps up on Friday. And for the past three weeks, the group Students for Fair Admissions has argued that the Ivy League school discriminates against Asian-American applicants.
Dartmouth prof: ‘If we don’t abolish capitalism, capitalism will abolish us’
Dartmouth College lecturer Mark Bray made the argument to abolish capitalism in a recent op-ed for Truthout, linking capitalism to the prioritizing of profit over the environment and everything else.
Should Professors Teach More to Avoid Program Cuts?
At one campus doing so, many adjuncts will lose positions, but departments aren't being eliminated.
‘Hologram’ lecturers to teach students at Imperial College London
University classes are set to be given a futuristic spin by letting lecturers appear as hologram-like apparitions beamed in from afar.
Another Law School Will Close
Valparaiso Law School announced its plans to close less than a month after the Tennessee Higher Education Commission rejected its plan to transfer to a public university in that state.
Cornell cuts ties with Chinese school after crackdown on students
Faculty members at Cornell University said on Monday that they were cutting ties with a leading Chinese university after reports that it was harassing and intimidating students campaigning for workers’ rights.
UMich hosts anti-Israel activists two days after synagogue massacre
he University of Michigan hosted an event featuring speakers supporting divestment from Israel two days after a massacre which claimed the lives of 11 individuals at a Jewish synagogue.
