Tenure vs. Enrollment
A small Michigan university is citing declining enrollment in tenure denials, and faculty members allege the approach violates their contract.
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High rejection rates by journals ‘pointless’
The mass rejection of research papers by selective journals in a bid to achieve a high impact factor is an enormous waste of academics’ time, advocates of open access publishing have argued.
Amherst College drops ‘Lord Jeff’ as mascot
Lord Jeffery Amherst, the colonial-era military commander who gave this town its name, will no longer represent the prestigious liberal arts college here.
How students are sharing prescription drugs on Facebook
With the ever increasing pressures of life, more and more women are resorting to medication as a method of coping.
College activists create alarm over alleged ‘anti-Semitic attacks’
Alumni and students from a prominent college in Ohio are concerned that pro-Palestinian student activists have taken their political views too far ...
Is It Discriminatory to Require Peer Review?
A former professor at the University of British Columbia who lost her tenure bid because of a poor publication record ...
Scientists offered $1 million in prizes to pre-register experiments
Scientists are being offered a $1,000 (£705) prize if they pre-register their plans for experiments in a bid to make research results more reproducible.
Terrorism allegations seek to silence dissent in Turkish academia, says scholar
Accusations of “propagating terrorism” made against more than 1,000 Turkish academics are an attempt to destroy the country’s last bastion of free speech, one under-threat scholar has claimed.
Divided Over Diversity
Baylor University has had its fair share of administrative turnover in recent memory: two of its last three presidents were forced out after clashing with the faculty and the Board of Trustees ...
Kansas trailing behind 2020 higher education goal
Colleges will need to recruit, retain more nontraditional students, data show
