Higher Education

Does the bad economy actually help humanities professors get laid? One normally wouldn’t think so (or think the question worth asking) but apparently some members of the Modern Language Association (MLA) are trying to figure out if it does. According to an article in Inside Higher Ed at this year’s MLA meeting many are asking […]

South Carolina needs to improve its higher education system. This is according to the chairman of the state’s Commission on Higher Education. From an article in the Columbia City Paper: For South Carolina to get out of the cellar on several generational problems – low education levels, poverty, high unemployment and more – its leaders […]

It’s become pretty well established by now that “green” is the way of the future. According to USA Today, “The Obama administration has estimated that jobs in energy and environmental-related occupations will grow 52% from 2000 through 2016, vs. 14% for other occupations.” At least in part this explains the proliferation of green majors in […]

The University of Maryland may cut its one full-time Yiddish professor position. According to the Baltimore Sun: At the University of Maryland, which has stood alongside Harvard and Columbia as one of the nation’s few schools to consistently offer instruction in the Germanic tongue, the recent announcement that the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for […]

While Indiana may have used higher education cuts to promote improvement—rewarding state colleges with higher performance by cutting their budgets less—this policy apparently isn’t all that popular across the country. The University of Hawaii has decided to simply cut the salaries of all faculty by 6.7 percent next year, according to an article in the […]

For years one of the big themes in education involved learning styles. Some students learned best with hands-on projects. Some learned by reading. Others learned by hearing information aloud. This chart shows the different learning styles. Apparently it doesn’t matter much, however. According to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Almost certainly, you […]

A new study from the business school at the University of New Hampshire indicates that there is little connection between grades earned by students and the amount of time they spend on social media. According to the study: There is no correlation between the amount of time students spend using social media and their grades. […]

The College Guide has run articles about campus corruption and scams before, but this looks like a new low. The owner of California Union University surrendered to immigration agents recently for running an immigration scam through his “college.” According to an article in the Orange County Register: Samuel Chai Cho Oh, 65, surrendered to Immigration […]

According to an article in Inside Higher Ed: A Massachusetts appeals court ruled Wednesday that Boston College police officers acted legally when they searched the dormitory room of two students without a warrant. The search, prompted by reports that the students had weapons in the room, found weapons — which were legal, but violated college […]

This is, well, novel. From Inside Higher Ed comes news that the Indiana Commission for Higher Education has plans to cut state university budgets. But the funding cuts will not be arbitrary or even. According to the article: Indiana’s commissioner of higher education recommended distributing budget cuts to state colleges based in significant part on […]