It started with Harvard University. Then Notre Dame, Cornell, Ohio State University and the University of Michigan. Colleges are racing to close or rename their diversity, equity and…
Read more OPINION: Beyond DEI offices, colleges are dismantling all kinds of programs related to equityA dashboard from the Canvas learning management system is displayed to students in this college lecture hall. A University of Michigan study finds that students with last names…
Read more Why an end-of-the alphabet last name could skew your gradesATLANTA — Two construction cranes hover over a giant worksite just outside the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. What they’re building is both…
Read more Grad programs have been a cash cow; now universities are starting to fret over graduate enrollment – The Hechinger Report“What are you going to do with that?” is a question I heard often from my family as both an undergraduate and a graduate student. Yes, I was…
Read more OPINION: Ask not what can be done with a humanities degree – The Hechinger ReportLast week, soon after news broke that graduate-student workers at Stanford University had initiated a unionization campaign, a professor there weighed in with a public statement of solidarity.…
Read more Stanford Told Faculty Not to Publicly Share Opinions on a Grad-Student Union Drive. Then It Reversed Course.One of the hottest fields for recent college graduates has recently cooled off, as layoffs have hit the technology sector. On Tuesday, Zoom announced it will be eliminating…
Read more What Do Big Tech Layoffs Mean for STEM Programs?More than 300 academic scientists from around the world are fighting a decision by the University of California at Los Angeles to suspend an award-winning faculty member without…
Read more After Mysterious Suspension of Award-Winning UCLA Prof, Scientists Fight BackThe University of California system reached a tentative agreement with striking graduate students late Friday that, if ratified, could bring an end to a monthlong strike that has…
Read more University of California Reaches Tentative Contract Deal with Striking Academic WorkersProfessors nationwide are currently immersed in an end-of-term ritual: grading. At the University of California, however, fall grades have been thrown into disarray as a strike involving teaching…
Read more ‘It’s a Mess’: Grades Are Due Soon, and U. of California Professors Are StrugglingInside a campus coffee shop at the University of California at Los Angeles, students were hunched over laptops on white plastic tables, armed with cups of coffee. The…
Read more How the Largest Higher-Ed Strike in U.S. History Blew Up FinalsLOS ANGELES — Postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers on Tuesday reached a tentative labor agreement with the University of California but will remain on strike in solidarity with…
Read more Some University of California striking workers reach dealWASHINGTON — A new group of Rhodes scholars from the U.S. has been selected for the prestigious academic program in a selection process that was conducted online for…
Read more US Rhodes scholars chosen to begin Oxford studies in 2023TUCSON, Ariz. — A former University of Arizona graduate student arrested in the fatal shooting of a hydrology professor was being held without bond Friday after a judge…
Read more Ex-grad student held in Arizona professor’s fatal shootingTUCSON, Ariz. — The University of Arizona has released the name of a professor who authorities said was fatally shot on campus by a former graduate student. University…
Read more Police: Ex-grad student kills Arizona professor on campus
