CNN — In February 2016, infectious disease epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee was holding her dying husband’s hand, watching him lose an exhausting fight against a deadly superbug infection. After…
Read more No antibiotics worked, so this woman turned to a natural enemy of bacteria to save her husband's life | CNNA University of California academic-governance panel has voted to undo a controversial admissions standard that professors fear is not preparing students for college-level math, just as it is…
Read more The University of California Is Reversing Course on Its ‘Data Science’ Admissions StandardA psychologist spoke out this week about what critics see as a job offer gone awry over an ideological spat about diversity statements. Yoel Inbar, an associate professor…
Read more This Professor Criticized Diversity Statements. Did It Cost Him a Job Offer?CNN — A 21-year-old former student at the University of California, Davis, has been arrested in connection with three stabbings that occurred near the campus within the span…
Read more 21-year-old former UC Davis student arrested in connection with series of stabbings near campus, police say | CNNSmall campus interventions — like adding hydration stations and making healthy foods more visible — can make a big difference in how students, faculty, and staff feel about…
Read more What Does a Healthy Campus Actually Look Like? A New Study Offers Ideas.After the rulings are handed down in sexual-misconduct lawsuits against colleges, a second legal battle quietly begins. Determining who pays the legal fees and settlements — which, in…
Read more Multimillion-Dollar Payouts Are on the Rise in Sexual-Misconduct Lawsuits. Colleges’ Insurers Have Had Enough.Editor’s Note: Onnie Willis Rogers is a former collegiate gymnastics champion at UCLA and a professor of psychology at Northwestern University whose research focuses on human development, diversity…
Read more Opinion: Gymnastics teams look nothing like they used to. And this is the biggest change of all | CNNCNN — The University of California Police Department has opened an investigation after a human skeleton was found on the UC Berkeley campus, officials say. UC Berkeley police…
Read more ‘Skeletonized’ human remains were found on UC Berkeley’s campus | CNNThe 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 StrugglingNearly 1,800 part-time faculty members at the New School, who have been on strike since November 16 for better pay and working conditions, remained out of work and…
Read more ‘An Extraordinarily Hostile Move’: New School Threatens to Withhold Pay in Adjunct StrikeInside 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 Finals
