How to ask an end-of-interview question
Senior academics and university administrators offer their top tips on how to ask that awkward question at the end of a job interview
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Testing times as South Korean students sit for college exam
Financial markets stayed closed and aircraft grounded as students in South Korea sat down on Thursday morning for the annual college entrance exam that could make or break their careers.
Robots beat academics in research challenge
With their formidable brain power and complex skill sets, academics would seem to have little to fear from the advance of machines now capable of doing certain human jobs.
Whom Does Secrecy Protect?
Colleges don’t tell students that professors are being investigated for -- or even had been found guilty of -- harassment. Berkeley grad students demand change in this practice.
How to train 1,000 dual-enrollment teachers? Minn. State has a plan
Stakeholders are finalizing a plan for getting more than 1,000 teachers the graduate credits necessary to continue leading college-level courses for Minnesota high school students in 2022 and beyond.
Canada makes permanent residency easier for overseas students
The Canadian government has announced changes to its immigration system that it estimates will increase the numbers of international students invited to apply for permanent residency by a third.
Pakistan expels Turkish teachers at ‘Gulen-linked’ schools
Pakistan has ordered more than 100 Turkish teachers at a chain of international schools to leave the country, with their families, by the end of the week.
Rancorous November
Stanford students walk out of classes; Tulsa CC student implicated in racist emails to Penn students; blackface controversy at Abilene Christian; and more.
Campuses confront hostile acts against minorities
The fliers depicting men in camouflage, wielding guns and an American flag, appeared in men’s restrooms throughout Texas State University: “Now that our man Trump is elected,” they said. “Time to organize tar and feather vigilante squads and go arrest and torture those deviant university leaders spouting off that diversity garbage.”
Print This ‘The Faculty Factor’
Book argues that faculty’s diminishing influence puts higher education at risk. Suggested interventions include changing tenure to save it -- namely by ending it for professors at 70 years of age.
