Seeking to Mend Relations, Pasadena City President Offers Coffee to Faculty Critics
The community-college chief proposes meeting with professors "two by two" amid concerns over his leadership and treatment of a student newspaper.
At Librarians' Meeting, Information Is Championed—but Not Always Books
After hearing high praise from the performer Henry Rollins, librarians delved into discussions of the library's changing role in the academic enterprise.
Campus Counseling Centers 'Are as Busy as They Ever Have Been'
The centers are serving a growing number of students with "significant" mental-health issues, according to the results of a new survey.
Education Dept. to Renew Efforts at Gainful-Employment and State-Authorization Rules
The administration is not giving up on efforts to hold colleges accountable for their students' employability and to force states to step up oversight of distance education.
Herbert Richardson v. the World
Some librarians say the founder of Edwin Mellen Press is a bully for his legal threats against bloggers who criticize his company. But he says he's the one being bullied.
A Radical Anthropologist Finds Himself in Academic 'Exile'
David Graeber, a scholar of the radical left, can't find a job. Maybe American anthropology departments aren't as liberal as you think.
Behind the Webcam's Watchful Eye
"What we look for is eye movement," says one veteran of the online-test-proctoring industry. It's "almost instrusive," says another.
'I Fully Expect to Die With This Debt'
Student-loan debt is growing more quickly among people age 60 and older than in any other age group.
Defender of the Liberal Arts Brings the Fight to Kenyon College
Sean M. Decatur, Oberlin College's dean of the arts and sciences, is preparing to switch loyalties as he becomes president of another private institution in Ohio.
U. of Texas' Ransom Center to Get New Director; Next Law Dean Named at New York U.
Stephen Enniss, of the Folger Shakespeare Library, will lead the humanities-research library and museum. Read about that and other job-related news.
A Leading Philosopher Is Drawn From Rutgers to Yale
Jason Stanley says Yale offers him access to top people in all the areas he wants to explore.
At Florida A&M, an Anti-Hazing Administrator Works to Prevent More Harm to Students
A university with a troubled history of hazing has hired an alumnus to help ensure that the practice ends.
A New President Seeks to Move Historic Morehouse College Into the Future
John S. Wilson Jr., who left a post in the White House, wants to give Morehouse College the great future he imagined it could have when he was a student there.
Justice and Art; Protests Both Quiet and Violent
Glimpses of life in academe from around the world.
Effort to Unionize Adjuncts by Region Starts a Campaign in Boston
Service Employees International Union is branching out with a "metropolitan" organizing strategy that started in the Washington, D.C., area.
University Rankings Proliferate, Along With New Uses for the Data They Collect
Although criticism of international rankings has intensified, reliance on them has expanded, says a report on trends in the controversial field.
Dartmouth's Interim President Will Be Next Chancellor at Chapel Hill
Carol L. Folt, an environmental scientist, will become the first woman to lead the University of North Carolina's flagship campus.
U. of Texas Regents Acquiesce to Legislators' Requests on Austin Campus
The board agreed to turn over records sought by lawmakers and to let the state handle an investigation that critics have called a vendetta against the flagship campus's president.
Florida Atlantic U. Disciplines Professor Who Questioned Accounts of Newtown Shootings
The university says the professor failed to make clear he spoke for himself on his controversial blog. The professor says the university is violating his free-speech rights.
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