Globalized Higher Ed
More than half of all research papers published by academics in France and Britain now have at least one international co-author. Share lags in U.S.
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Ball State frats to go alcohol-free through January 2018
Ball State University staff and presidents of the 13 fraternities included in Ball State’s Interfraternity Council have agreed there will be no more social gatherings at fraternity houses or co-hosted events by fraternities that include alcohol, or otherwise, until after Jan. 31, 2018.
US university leaders who shut out speakers ‘inflaming problem’
US university presidents who bar “controversial” speakers from campus are “inflaming the problem”, according to the leader of an institution that hosted alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.
Iona launches incubator at new entrepreneurship institute
Iona College has officially launched GaelVentures, the startup incubator space at the New Rochelle college’s Hynes Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
A broadening battle over archives to share papers
Scholars feel pressure to remove their work from research-sharing platforms like Academia.edu and others, as publishers’ battle with ResearchGate rages on.
‘Progressive stacking’ teaching technique sparks debate
Anyone who has ever taught a university class knows some students say more than others.
Peer Review’s Give-and-Take
About that peer-review crisis … There isn’t one, at least in terms of quantity, according to a new study of article submissions and reviews completed in the social sciences. But those who write many papers might not be reviewing their fair share.
St. Thomas College lets underserved students pay what they can afford
Kelly Saybe and Xavier Abdullahi sat front and center in class on a Wednesday in October. They’re thrilled to be at the University of St. Thomas
Anger Over Stereotypes in Textbook
Pearson vows to remove material amid uproar over advice on how nursing students should evaluate people by their racial, ethnic or religious backgrounds.
Is China’s HE strategy too narrow to dominate the world rankings?
An announcement last month by the Chinese government about which institutions will be included in its latest funding initiative to create “world-class” universities may have pricked up the ears of the elite Western institutions that dominate higher education rankings.
