Monument to peer reviewers may become ‘place of worship’
Being unpaid, unloved and unknown for their troubles, anonymous peer reviewers must often feel they have one of academia’s most thankless jobs.
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Chicago Professors Fire Back
More than 150 faculty members offer new students a different view on safe spaces, trigger warnings and diversity.
Dirt Capital seeds financing for ecological farms
Who is there to provide financing when small farmers in the Northeast are trying to secure the futures of ecological farms?
On ‘free’ college courses taken by Ohio’s middle-, high-school students
“Free college credit” for seventh-graders and older students — the lure of the popular dual-enrollment program that Ohio put into effect a year ago — isn’t free for school districts.
Chinese students can now choose teachers
Freshmen in the chemical engineering department in China’s southeast Jiangxi University of Science and Technology will now be able to choose their professors based on age, gender, and personality, adding some excitement to China’s often dreary university scene.
U.S. tech firms urge Congress to allow internet domain changeover
Major technology companies including Facebook, Google and Twitter are urging Congress to support a plan for the U.S. government to cede control of the internet's technical management to the global community...
Universities failing to make best use of Twitter, researchers say
Universities are failing to make best use of Twitter and may promote “inaccurate” depictions of themselves via the social network, a major study says.
9/11 Disunity at Occidental
College Republicans plant 2,997 flags on campus. Many are removed and trashed.
Why we need a carbon tax, and why it won’t be enough
Putting a price on carbon is an idea whose time has come, with even Big Oil signaling it may drop its long-standing opposition to a carbon tax.
Russian binary system ‘damaging’ universities and science
It will be “impossible” for Russia’s universities to become internationally competitive as long as academic science and medical research take place outside universities in specialised academies.
