The Push for Net Neutrality Arose From Lack of Choice The New York Times The Push for Net Neutrality Arose From Lack of Choice Kevin Werbach of the Wharton School is quoted about the Federal Communications Commission and net neutrality.
Writing Bad Code? Inside Higher Ed Writing Bad Code? Is a professor sending out a late recommendation letter for a student as bad as one who commits academic misconduct or, say, sexually harasses a colleague? And shouldn’t staff and administrators be held to the same ethical standards as faculty members?
Audio: How Do You Market to Millennials? Morning Edition (NPR) Audio: How Do You Market to Millennials? Americus Reed of the Wharton School talks about how to market towards the millennial generation.
New Screening Tests for Hard-to-spot Breast Cancers The Wall Street Journal New Screening Tests for Hard-to-spot Breast Cancers Emily Conant of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about testing for breast cancer and the legislation in some states that requires doctors to inform women when they have dense tissue.
Dangers and Allure of Molly Inside Higher Ed Dangers and Allure of Molly Wesleyan University is urging students to come forward with information about who is selling the party drug known as Molly on campus after nearly a dozen students were hospitalized this weekend after using the drug
Court of Appeals to Hear Case Against NYU Expansion The Wall Street Journal Court of Appeals to Hear Case Against NYU Expansion The New York State Court of Appeals on Tuesday agreed to hear a case against New York University’s expansion plan, a move that paves the way for critics to try again to block the school’s initiative to expand throughout Greenwich Village.
UC Berkeley Studies International Education Campus in Richmond Los Angeles Times UC Berkeley Studies International Education Campus in Richmond On the waterfront seven miles from UC Berkeley, the university owns what is now an isolated and somewhat ramshackle collection of storage facilities and labs. But Berkeley's chancellor envisions it as a future showcase for international education.
Campus Anti-Semitism Inside Higher Ed Campus Anti-Semitism More than half of Jewish students at American colleges reported personally experiencing or witnessing anti-Semitism within the past six months, according to survey findings released Monday. The findings should be a wake-up call to college administrators that Jewish students face real problems of bias, said Kenneth Marcus, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.
Boosting the Number of Male Teachers of Color Phi Delta Kappa International Boosting the Number of Male Teachers of Color Marybeth Gasman, doctoral student Andrés Castro Samayoa, Alice Ginsberg and Francisco Ramos of the Graduate School of Education write about ways to increase the number of male teachers of color.
The Financial-aid Fine Print Chronicle of Higher Education The Financial-aid Fine Print Admissions counselors from any of the country’s wealthiest colleges would probably describe their financial aid in similar terms. Something like: “Yes, our price tag is really high, but we meet the full demonstrated need of all our students. If you get in here, we’ll make it affordable for you.” That’s basically true. And the wealthiest colleges do have roughly the same financial-aid policies.