Texts That Undercut a President
New questions are being raised at Kennesaw State after local politicians boasted about influencing the president’s decision on how to respond to a racial protest movement.
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Digital diploma debuts at MIT
In 1868, the fledgling Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Boylston Street awarded its first diplomas to 14 graduates. Since then, it has issued paper credentials to more than 207,000 undergraduate and graduate students in much the same way.
‘Lean in’ to public advocacy in Trump era, US scientists told
US university leaders and individual researchers must “lean in” to their responsibilities as public advocates for evidence-based policymaking under the presidency of Donald Trump, according to a former White House staffer.
IPEDS improved but needs better data
The U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has made key changes to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), which is used to measure success rates in higher education.
Upgrading all borderline students’ degree classes ‘unacceptable’
UK universities must ensure that their policies on borderline scores do not in effect lower the thresholds for degree classifications, sector bodies say.
Default Crisis for Black Student Borrowers
Half of all black students who took out federal student loans defaulted in 12 years, according to two analyses of new federal data on student borrowers.
This venture cap fund taps university students to find the best on-campus investments
Eric Tarczynski spent two years traveling around the country to put together a team of about 100 students at 50 campuses.
Central European University faces further year of ‘legal limbo’
The threatened Central European University may face a further year of uncertainty over its future in Hungary, after the government extended the compliance deadline for its higher education act to 2019.
WC swears in Grizzard, talks student hunger
When Weatherford College swore in new trustee member Roger Grizzard at a meeting Thursday, there was no time wasted in addressing another need — student food insecurity.
Publication by chance
New simulation study says peer review is better at assuring quality research than random publication choices, but some systems of review are significantly better than others. Editors seen as more effective than peer-review panels alone.
