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Occupy Student Loans
Student debt has emerged as a major focus of the protests. Some worry that prospective students are hearing the wrong message -- while others see important shifts in the political debate about borrowing.
Hacker Changed Grades at Santa Clara U.
Santa Clara University announced Monday that a hacker had managed to improve the grades of 60 undergraduates, The San Jose...
Study Documents Decline in Illinois Higher Education
The higher education system in Illinois, once a national model, has seen sharp declines in performance driven not only by...
'The Game' Wins Out Over Rhodes Scholarship
Patrick Witt, Yale University's star quarterback, has withdrawn his application for a Rhodes Scholarship, citing his desire to play "the...
Lack of Confidence in a Vote of No Confidence
Some professors at Mississippi Valley State University are criticizing a Faculty Senate vote of no confidence this month in President...
Unconscious Plagiarism
In today’s Academic Minute, La Sierra University's Dora Clarke-Pine discusses the shockingly common problem of plagiarism in doctoral dissertations. Clarke-Pine...
Tensions Over Occupy Protests on Campuses
Several colleges are seeing tensions and debates over Occupy protest movements on their campuses. Harvard University has restricted access to...
Occupy MLA
The latest spinoff of the protest movement focuses on the language and literature job market with demand of "Tenure Track Now."