California’s showdown with Elsevier inspires US campuses
Confidence stalls, however, over depth of faculty commitment to open access
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Community Colleges to Add New Apprenticeships to Work Force
AACC is helping community colleges answer President Trump's call for more apprenticeship programs and partnerships with businesses.
RIGGED VOTE? Georgetown students speak out after reparations fee passes
Two Georgetown University students have filed a complaint alleging misconduct in a recent student referendum vote.
Nearly a third of all college students still don’t have a degree six years later
America’s higher education problem is not a college enrollment problem.
Debt Without Default
Some experts think it's time to rethink how the government collects on defaulted student loans, moving away from punitive measures that may not help borrowers make progress toward paying debt.
U.S. immigration police broke Facebook rules with fake profiles for college sting
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) violated Facebook policy by creating fake social media profiles tied to the University of Farmington, a sham university it created to identify people committing immigration fraud.
US public universities eye big move into online education
After the collapse of for-profit colleges, big state universities see need and opportunity
Universities should be working for the greater good
Friendly competition can push us all to do better. But when the competitiveness that fuels excellence and prestige becomes based in the logic of the market, universities lose sight of their true purpose
The American Education Disadvantage?
New research finds that graduates from U.S. universities are less likely to get a call back from Chinese employers than their counterparts with degrees from Chinese universities.
US essay mill firm targets new students through WhatsApp
A US firm is targeting first-year university students by infiltrating their private WhatsApp groups and offering to write essays for £7 a page, the Guardian can reveal.
