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Expanding Apprenticeships Across More Jobs

New research indicates more job opportunities would be available if apprenticeships were expanded across more fields.

GOP Begins Rewrite of Federal Aid Law

House education committee leaks its ambitious first draft of a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, with broad changes aimed at both deregulation and more accountability in how federal student aid is distributed and used.

Nationwide Protest Against Tax on Grad Students

At Penn and elsewhere, students organize “grade-ins” to show what they do and how House Republicans’ tax legislation could make it harder for them to make ends meet.
Opinion

Coping With Plagiarism

Wayne Stauffer offers a few strategies for minimizing it.

Scapegoating a Department?

University of Nebraska professors want board to defend them against Republican politicians who, after incident with lecturer, have launched a series of salvos against English faculty members and the entire institution.
Opinion

Responding to the New Title IX Guidelines

If colleges choose to increase the standard of proof, they should recognize the impact it will have and prepare to mitigate it, write Josh Gupta-Kagan and Mary Eschelbach Hansen.

Did Michigan State Look the Other Way?

As former gymnastics national team doctor pleads guilty to molestation charges, some ask whether university let abuse continue by failing to respond adequately to complaints about his conduct.

No Consistent Sanctions for Silencing

Colleges and universities aren’t eager to punish students who shout down speakers, but they must follow their own policies and foster an environment conducive to free speech, experts say.