Scholar takes students’ phones and makes them read for four hours
David Peña-Guzmán says philosophy undergraduates have enthusiastically embraced experiment designed to ‘reignite their love of attentive reading’
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Experimental colleges: an idea whose time has passed?
Struggles of Hampshire College suggest to some that students may be reluctant to shape their own degrees in a debt-heavy, career-focused higher education sector
Gonzaga ‘tunnel of oppression’: ‘Tear down the walls’
A Washington State school hosted an event aimed at showcasing different kinds of oppression.
Do Colleges Measure What They Value?
Study examines what colleges say they want students to learn and how they are measuring that learning.
Cyber sciences: Getting women into the room
When Ashley Podhradsky became the first woman to earn her doctorate from Dakota State University in South Dakota in 2010, little did she know the impact she would have nationally on the lives of girls and women in the male-dominated field of cyber sciences
Australian PhD students target careers outside academia
Trend reflects growing gap between PhD completions and academic job availability
Even college students call millionaire Bernie Sanders a ‘hypocrite’
Tax returns from 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders revealed that he is a millionaire.
Texas lawmakers consider boosting dual credit education program as more students opt in
Salma Paredes, a senior at Arlington Collegiate High School, enjoys graphic design, watching documentaries and hanging out with friends — when she has the time.
‘Intersectionality and Higher Education’
Editors discuss new volume of essays on the ways higher education is changing because of issues of race, gender and sexuality -- and how they think higher ed needs to change even more.
Prof with history of anti-white comments now says ‘whiteness is terrorism’
Trinity College Professor Johnny Eric Williams tweeted that "whiteness is terrorism."
