United States Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the College of Charleston as part of her "Fight for Our Freedoms" college tour, the school announced Thursday. The visit will come on Wednesday, Oct. 11. The event will be held in the Sottile Theatre, beginning at 1 p.m. Harris' tour touches on critical issues such as […]
Walmart has eliminated college degrees as a requirement for hundreds of its corporate roles. The retail giant said last week that it would get rid of 'unnecessary barriers' that prevent career advancement, and that job applicants would start seeing updated job descriptions next year. The move is part of a wider trend in the US jobs […]
A Clery Act investigation by the Education Department suggests the Christian university discouraged people from reporting crimes and underreported the claims it received. Undermined allegations of sexual violence reached the top of administration, according to investigators.
For the first time to date, researchers out of Northwestern University developed an artificial intelligence that can design a robot completely by itself. The team gave the AI a prompt, "design a robot that can walk across a flat surface." Seconds later, the AI created this purple block. Northwestern University's AI learned to walk within […]
The search for Michigan State University's next president has been negatively impacted by the sexual harassment allegations against fired football coach Mel Tucker, according to one of the nation's foremost experts on presidential searches. Judith Wilde, a George Mason University researcher who specializes in presidential searches in higher education, said the news from the past […]
"Technology is now a science and a commodity you can buy and service anywhere. But integrating it and making it instantly available is an art, not a science," says Mike Mathews, vice president of innovation and technology at Oral Roberts University.
A group of professors at Vassar, the historic US women's college in New York, tried for years to internally resolve an issue of being paid less than their male counterparts but now they have finally resorted to legal action, a lawyer for the group said. Vassar has been hit with a federal lawsuit brought by five senior female […]
Liberty has faced increasing public pressure in recent years over policies that survivors say allow sexual violence to run unchecked. The preliminary report says overlooked allegations of violence reached all the way to the top, including accusations involving a former university president and a senior administrator. Read more from USA Today.
"This raises challenging questions about unequal access to the best university education across America and the implications for social mobility and economic disparities between US regions," said Phil Baty, THE's Chief global affairs officer.
