Harvard bars students for posting ‘obscene memes’
"Obscene" memes posted on a private Facebook page have cost 10 students their place at Harvard, reports the college's newspaper.
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Build universities on ‘actual condition’, says China expert
"To build a top ranking university, colleges and universities should work on the basis of their actual conditions," said Mei Guoping, president of Jiangxi Normal University and an NPC deputy.
Playing video games ‘improves students’ employability skills’
University of Glasgow research indicates students can improve communication and thinking ability by playing computer games
Some hires by DeVos stark departure from her reputation
Since her confirmation as the education secretary, Betsy DeVos has been the Trump cabinet member liberals love to hate ...
A Course Too Hot to Handle?
Academics at UNC want to know what was wrong with plans for a class dealing with athletics scandals, including one at Chapel Hill.
Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students
To Gwen Beatty, a junior at the high school in this proud, struggling, Trump-supporting town, the new science teacher’s lessons on climate change seemed explicitly designed to provoke her.
Former Penn State President Spanier gets jail time in Sandusky case
The former president of Penn State University and two other former administrators were sentenced to jail terms Friday for failing to report a 2001 allegation that assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was molesting young boys.
Should scientific misconduct be a crime?
Amid growing concern about fraud in research and the challenges of reproducing the results of scientific trials, these questions were hotly debated at the World Conference on Research Integrity
‘Academic Terrorist’
Months after deleting controversial lists of “predatory” journals and publishers, the librarian behind them still faces anonymous harassment online.
When the Left Turns on Its Own
Bret Weinstein is a biology professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., who supported Bernie Sanders, admiringly retweets Glenn Greenwald and was an outspoken supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
