Administrators can no longer rely on standard scientific benchmarks to receive critical higher education research funding. Here is what will change on the university grant writer's desk.
Students who enroll in short-term, job-focused training through community college noncredit programs experience modest but meaningful earnings gains and a greater likelihood of being employed after training, according to a new study,
A pair of damning reports assert the university's efforts to ensure students and staff can express their ideas freely and protest "while avoiding disruption, harassment, and threats," President Alan Garber said.
One president active on LinkedIn views her activity as a professional responsibility to connect with community members outside of campus, such as alumni. Several principles guide her posts.
"The file-drawer effect," the Journal Impact Factor and the pressure to produce are pushing some researchers to forego academic rigor and inhibiting the peer review process.
Fifteen years ago, the Obama administration and philanthropic foundations encouraged more Americans to get a college degree. Remedial classes were a big barrier. Two-thirds of community college students and 40% of four-year college students weren’t academically prepared for college-level work and were forced to take prerequisite “developmental” courses that didn’t earn them college credits. Many […]
Annual faculty pay can range from $50,000 to $250,000, which may be true for faculty in the same department teaching the same courses. Is this unlawful?
The number of scientific papers retracted due to fraudulent peer review and research misconduct has eclipsed 10,000 for the first time in 2023, according to Nature, a British scientific journal. A decade ago, retractions were just a tenth of what they are now.
