Chronicle of Higher Education

After seven years of double-digit increases, the number of Chinese applications to graduate programs in the United States this spring fell an unexpected 5 percent.

Glimpses of life in academe from around the world.

A petition demands censure of a University of Rochester scholar who mused on a blog: Should rape be illegal if the victim is unconscious and no harm results?

Administrators' responses to several high-profile incidents have left some professors concerned about their freedom to teach controversial subjects.

Institutions generally become more efficient and effective when their professors form collective-bargaining units, says a paper being presented at a conference this weekend.

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, an organization of students that promotes academic attention to global-health needs, finds clear room for improvement.

The association says system and flagship leaders violated principles of shared governance, tenure, and due process in declaring exigency and in steps taken since.

The students, in the English department's Ph.D. and M.F.A. programs, want to be paid a living wage, or $19,200. That's double what some of them get now.

The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities was given a year to show that it was in compliance with standards on handling such complaints.

After the abrupt firing of the university's men's basketball coach, attention turns to what the president knew and when he knew it.

In the latest complaint, a former campus chief says the university's chancellor and board are violating standards of governance.

The experimental course had students create historical hoaxes online. But after ethical objections arose, the professor who taught it says he won't offer it again.

"Save money and graduate early," the new program promises. It publicizes Akron's existing for-credit exams and, for a fee, helps students prepare for them.

A 377-page report from the National Association of Scholars decries liberal bias at the 219-year-old college in Maine.

Florida appears to have resolved a dispute with the Education Department, but its reinterpretation could affect 10 other states.

"There is this enormous mystery waiting to be unlocked, and the Brain Initiative will change that," the president said, likening it to the Human Genome Project.

The university has said that the campus AAUP chapter's version of a faculty survey would violate copyright law.

The "New University of California" would provide no instruction but would issue college credit and degrees to anyone who could pass a series of examinations.

In his talk, Martin Scorsese links verbal and visual literacy. He calls for treating our film heritage "as reverently as every last book in the Library of Congress."