Expectations too much for some children
"I TAKE 10 EXTRACURRICULAR training courses each week, yet my exam scores are not so good. Every time I think about this I am full of tears."
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Students occupy Reed College administration building over school’s bank
Students are sleeping in the Reed College administration building in protest of the school's primary bank.
The Costumes Are Coming
Colleges are pilloried each October by conservative media for being overly concerned about students offended by Halloween costumes. But do those stories miss the hands-off approach colleges often take?
Senior academics ‘take too much credit’ in co-authorship
Junior academics are being “held back” in their careers as a consequence of more senior research partners being over-credited on co-authored papers, the results of a global study suggest.
UK considers offering student loan access in foreign trade deals
The UK government is exploring the idea of offering access to public student loans for overseas students studying at British universities, as part of potential post-Brexit trade deals with foreign governments.
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.
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.
