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Environmental Security
How vulnerable is your country to environmental conflict? In today's Academic Minute, Villanova University's Frank Galgano describes the Vulnerability Risk...
The Scooter Wars of 2018
Students love them, but many campuses are struggling to regulate scooters and are impounding them.
Beyond the Numbers on Gender and Research
Are we thinking about gender diversity in the sciences all wrong, or at least too simply? New paper proposes a multipronged approach to thinking about and encouraging this diversity, for the benefit of science as a whole.
A High-Profile Tech Boot Camp Stumbles
Woz U, named for Apple co-founder, is subject of critical news report citing dissatisfied students, prompting a state investigation. Its leaders defend quality but acknowledge flaws and a slow start.
Digital Learning in 'Inside Higher Ed' This Week
The following developments received news coverage in Inside Higher Ed this week: The publisher Cengage has reached a settlement with...
Capital Campaign Watch: Christendom, Macalester, Rose-Hulman, School of Art Institute of Chicago, U of Montana
Starting Out: Macalester College has started a campaign to raise $100 million by 2019. The college has already raised $80...
A Course Experiment Tackles Textbook Costs
Students in California drafted a bill to urge publishers to reveal how their textbooks changed between editions. The students convinced lawmakers to adopt the legislation. But will publishers comply?
A Study Abroad Boycott
A second instructor at the University of Michigan declines to write a letter for a student to study in Israel, citing support for the boycott, and a first professor who refused to write a letter is disciplined. Meanwhile, Israel has detained and ordered the deportation of a U.S. student for her support for the boycott movement.