The University of Idaho said Wednesday it would move forward with its planned affiliation with the for-profit University of Phoenix in a nearly $700 million deal after a judge dismissed the state attorney general's lawsuit alleging the deal was done in violation of an open meetings law. Attorney General Raúl Labrador failed to prove the […]
Student organizations held a silent protest at South Carolina State University on Wednesday as the university's board of trustees consider eliminating academic programs at the university. Students on campus were concerned as this topic was brought up by the university's Board of Trustees last month. They expected the board to take it up again at […]
Nearly a third of employers hiring entry-level positions admitted avoiding selecting Gen Zers, according to a survey from ResumeBuilder.com. The culprit? Entitlement.
"This is not an anomaly: Free speech in higher education is getting worse," said Laura Beltz, director of policy reform at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
College educators and residents are leading a privately funded mentorship program for minority male students to engage with them and help them with personal and academic success while boosting self-confidence. The free Detours Mentoring Team began in October 2022 and works with Black and Hispanic men across the county between the ages of 18 to […]
A new online resource brings together universities' research-assessment and career-development policies to help the academic community make hiring, promotion and tenure procedures fairer, more robust and more diverse. The Reformscape database, launched today by the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), collates publicly available policies, action plans and other documents from research institutions worldwide. Its aim is to […]
Higher education and K12 accounted for 10% of the hate crimes reported from 2018 to 2022, according to an FBI study that also looked at the ethnicity and religion of the victims.
Campus protests are not usually aimed at a single person. But last week at the University of Pennsylvania, professors staged a rally targeting Marc Rowan, the New York private-equity billionaire. A Penn alumnus and a major benefactor of the university, Mr. Rowan deployed his formidable resources in a relentless campaign against Penn's president, M. Elizabeth […]
A man who applied for a job at the University of Utah is suing the school for alleged reverse discrimination in its hiring practices. In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court District of Utah, Dr. Wyatt Felt claims the school passed him over for a job in the Mechanical Engineering Department because of […]
