To retain students, US institutions must give credit for learning that occurs in professional settings, say Stephen Handel and Eileen Strempel Read more

People were getting high on hallucinogenic drugs in Spain around 3,000 years ago, according to new research. Read more

The academic workforce in the U.S. is slowly but surely relying more heavily on contingent faculty and graduate student employees as tenure and tenure-track faculty positions decline, according to a key summary from the American Association of University Professors. Read more

Campus Reform’s Very Own Peter Cottontail went hopping down the bunny trail to University of Maryland College Park, to survey what students thought of a new “inclusive language guide” from Michigan State University. Read more

The Harvard environmental law professor at the centre of a conflict-of-interest row lobbied the regulator on behalf of the oil and gas company that pays her more than $350,000 a year, a new investigation can reveal. Read more

Tulane University wants to hire an “Activist Media” professor by this summer who has a background in “the lived experience of BIPOC or marginalized communities and explores the relationships between media and politics or social justice.” Read more

In January, the University of Florida was “strongly discouraging” all students, faculty and staff from using TikTok. Now, the school has officially banned use of the social media app on university-owned devices and on devices connected to school Wi-Fi. Read more

A Texas Supreme Court majority has ruled that two major public university systems in the state can revoke degrees received through academic misconduct. Read more

After the Seniors University of China was formally established in Beijing last month, Li Jing was among the first students to take a course at the national-level facility. Read more

Social scientist sees hand of ChatGPT in list of non-existent papers cited in peer reviewer’s rejection Read more