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Zuckerberg’s Biden problem
Before the Cambridge Analytica story had broken. Before Facebook's acknowledgement that its platform had been used to help incite ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
Biden orders plans for reopening campuses safely
New Safer Schools and Campuses Best Practices Clearinghouse will enable colleges and universities to share best practices
A threat to private Colleges?
President Biden's proposal to make public colleges free could mean more students may be able to go to college, but it could also mean the end for some private institutions.
DeVos was terrible at her job and knew nothing about public schools. That was exactly what the far right wanted
Even Betsy DeVos — one of the longest-serving of Donald Trump's revolving-door cabinet secretaries — finally reached what she called an "inflection point" with the former president's open call for violent insurrection, resigning slightly before he left office.
Profs effectively seek to ban books from Trump admin officials
A handful of professors demanded that publishing companies refuse to work with Trump administration alumni.
Facing $37M in funding cuts, Kansas colleges given broader latitude to fire employees
According to calculations from the Kansas Legislative Research Department, Gov. Laura Kelly’s budget as presented to state lawmakers last week amounts to a $37.4 million reduction in state general funding for higher education.
Music professor sues university for punishing him over defense of ‘racist’ composer
Timothy Jackson followed through on his threat to sue the University of Northern Texas for investigating him in response to his defense of a 19th century composer.
Chinese universities told student cheating could cost them funding
Campuses rated below par for three years in a row could be asked to suspend undergraduate recruitment
Could Google really leave Australia?
Google has threatened to pull out of the Australian market if a new law governing its relationship with news publishers goes ahead.
