Critical consciousness: black female academics tell their stories
At a time when the female voice is being heard speaking out about many forms of abuse, Deborah Gabriel insists that the experiences of black women also need to be given a platform.
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In Berkeley’s ‘Cyberwar’ class, students become hackers
A new class at the University of California, Berkeley, is training students to hack.
College teachers-in-training prep with virtual students
The University of Wyoming now uses an augmented reality platform with a simulated class as part of its teacher education program.
Column Starts a Culture War
Texas State's president calls an opinion piece published by the student newspaper "racist." Others have demanded the paper's funding be pulled. Minority students defend the publication and say their views are being squelched.
Oxford issues ‘remarkable’ £750 million, 100-year bond
University secures 2.54 per cent interest rate on borrowing to fund £1.5 billion capital programme
Art education platform founded
Guardian Education Center has launched an international-education platform to offer short- and long-term courses on art history, collecting, archaeology and business in Beijing.
GOP Begins Rewrite of Federal Aid Law
House education committee leaks its ambitious first draft of a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, with broad changes aimed at both deregulation and more accountability in how federal student aid is distributed and used.
Academics back authorship statements to stamp out ‘abuse’
Three-quarters of researchers believe that authors should be required to declare exactly what they contributed to published journal articles in a bid to boost transparency and stamp out authorship “abuse”, according to a Times Higher Education poll.
Scapegoating a Department?
University of Nebraska professors want board to defend them against Republican politicians who, after incident with lecturer, have launched a series of salvos against English faculty members and the entire institution.
