Should Professors Teach More to Avoid Program Cuts?
At one campus doing so, many adjuncts will lose positions, but departments aren't being eliminated.
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Trump’s racist video is part of a broader GOP midterm strategy aimed at the conservative base
President Donald Trump's new Willie Horton-style web video posted to Twitter on Wednesday night represented a new flashpoint in a culture war he is stoking ahead of next week's midterm elections.
‘Hologram’ lecturers to teach students at Imperial College London
University classes are set to be given a futuristic spin by letting lecturers appear as hologram-like apparitions beamed in from afar.
Another Law School Will Close
Valparaiso Law School announced its plans to close less than a month after the Tennessee Higher Education Commission rejected its plan to transfer to a public university in that state.
Cornell cuts ties with Chinese school after crackdown on students
Faculty members at Cornell University said on Monday that they were cutting ties with a leading Chinese university after reports that it was harassing and intimidating students campaigning for workers’ rights.
UMich hosts anti-Israel activists two days after synagogue massacre
he University of Michigan hosted an event featuring speakers supporting divestment from Israel two days after a massacre which claimed the lives of 11 individuals at a Jewish synagogue.
Fake Cambridge Analytica ad hits Facebook
A fake advert purporting to have been paid for by scandal-hit Cambridge Analytica has been posted to Facebook.
Why investors are backing zero deforestation
This month marked the 10th anniversary of the UN-REDD Program, a bold attempt by the international community to reduce deforestation and its destructive impacts on climate change, biodiversity and the livelihoods of forest-dependent people.
Lecture capture: vital learning aid or a licence to skip class?
Academics say that online recordings must be emphasised as a supplementary resource, not an alternative to lectures, or some students lose out
‘Equivalence’ claims ridiculed in branch campus row
Academics at an Australian university’s overseas branch campus have scoffed at claims that its courses are as good as those back home, saying that workload inequities make it impossible for them to deliver degrees of the same quality.
