By Scott Jaschik. Milo Yiannopoulos has become a highly controversial speaker on campuses, known for his personal insults against gay and transgender people (though he is gay), attacks on feminists and mocking of liberals. Read more...
13 mars 2017
Different Kind of Disinvitation for Yiannopoulos
Survey on Medical Withdrawals, Refund Rules
By Scott Jaschik. Forty-five percent of colleges in a recent survey report seeing an increase in the number of medical withdrawals by students, according to a report by GradGuard, which provides insurance for such situations. Read more...
Incidents Roil Campuses
By Scott Jaschik. Numerous colleges -- including Hebrew Union College, the University of Florida, and the University of Minnesota -- have seen incidents involving swastikas in recent weeks. A neo-Nazi website has also been hacking into printers at prominent universities and printing out anti-Semitic fliers. Read more...
NYU Will Promote Speedier Graduation
By Scott Jaschik. New York University, long criticized for its expensive price tag, has launched a new effort called Accelerate to encourage more students to save money by shaving one semester off of their college costs. Read more...
Presidential Historians Rank the Presidents
By Scott Jaschik. President Lincoln held on to his first place slot as the best president of the United States in C-SPAN's third survey of presidential historians. He was followed by Presidents Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Read more...
Trump May Try to Kill AmeriCorps
By Scott Jaschik. Administration's draft list of programs to eliminate includes the national service program, which has provided $2.4 billion in student aid, as well as humanities and arts endowments. Read more...
Student debt nationally hit $1.31 trillion
By Scott Jaschik. Student debt nationally hit $1.31 trillion at the end of 2016, according to new data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Read more...
The Controversial Visit You Didn't Read About
By Scott Jaschik. On the same day Charles Murray was shouted down at Middlebury, Franklin & Marshall hosted a speaker opposed by some Muslim students and others. They protested, but didn't disrupt. And he spoke. Read more...
Israel Bars Boycotters
By Elizabeth Redden. The new law -- technically an amendment -- prohibits the granting of a visa or residency permit to a non-Israeli citizen or permanent resident “if he, [or] the organization or entity for which he works, has knowingly issued a public call to impose a boycott on the state of Israel” or “has committed to participate in such a boycott,” according to a translation of key parts of the text from the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. Read more...
The Gender Gap in Publications
By Elizabeth Redden. New analysis looks at differences in scholarly outputs and impacts across 12 countries/regions and 27 fields. Read more...
