News from Around Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education serves as the paper of record for higher education. Visitors to the Chronicle can freely search job listings or explore the various Career Advice columns or launch off into cyberspace using their Internet Resources database on higher-education administration and scholarly disciplines.

The other big online source of news on the comings and goings of Academia is Inside Higher Ed, the online paper that covers a wide range of topics including conflict resolution issues.

Recent News on Higher Education (with some K-12 mixed in)

Sources include RSS feeds from Inside Higher Ed, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the New York Times Education section.

• International Students Pay Top Dollar at U.S. Colleges
  02/04/2012 (from New York Times Education Feed)
  At the University of Washington, 18 percent of the freshmen are foreigners, and each pays about three times as much as students from Washington State.
  
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• Pennsylvania Schools? Funding Fight Pits District Against Charter
  02/04/2012 (from New York Times Education Feed)
  The Chester Upland district?s fiscal woes ? so severe that it cannot afford to pay teachers past the end of this month ? are compounded by a charter school with which it shares its financing.
  
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• Smaller Colleges Rely on Paid Student Recruiters Overseas
  02/04/2012 (from New York Times Education Feed)
  Green River Community College, south of Seattle, has enrolled 1,400 international students this year, most of them recruited by agents who get 15 percent of the ,732 first-year tuition.
  
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• Rhodes Trust Gives Account of Quarterback?s Candidacy
  02/04/2012 (from New York Times Education Feed)
  The Rhodes Trust confirmed that it had put on hold the candidacy of the quarterback, Patrick J. Witt, upon learning that a fellow student had filed a complaint against him.
  
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• Chicago News Cooperative: Rahm Emanuel?s Comments in Video Upset Teachers Union
  02/04/2012 (from New York Times Education Feed)
  An interview with Mayor Emanuel is a highlight of a new video that criticizes the Chicago Teachers Union.
  
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• Giants? Cruz Defied Odds at UMass
  02/04/2012 (from New York Times Education Feed)
  Victor Cruz, the Giants? leading receiver, followed a winding road to the N.F.L., including twice being kicked out of UMass for academic reasons.
  
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• The Texas Tribune: Student Assessments Facing Stiff Backlash in Texas
  02/04/2012 (from New York Times Education Feed)
  Parents and educators are expressing strong concern about the central role of standardized testing in the assessment and overall education of their children and students.
  
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• Beliefs: When Counseling and Conviction Collide ? Beliefs
  02/04/2012 (from New York Times Education Feed)
  The case of a woman who was expelled from a graduate counseling program highlights how religious views on sexual orientation provoke controversy in the profession.
  
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• Big Picture: Glimpses of Life in Academe From Around the World
  02/03/2012 (from Chronicle of HIgher Education)
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• Proposed Realigning of New Jersey Campuses Spurs Protests
  02/02/2012 (from Chronicle of HIgher Education)
  

  The plan would shift control of a Rutgers campus at Camden to Rowan University. Critics see hints of cronyism in that choice.

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• Senators Question Obama's Plan to Tie Federal Aid to Tuition
  02/02/2012 (from Chronicle of HIgher Education)
  

  At a hearing, Republicans grilled an Education Department official about how states would be affected. Some Democrats also raised concerns about the regulatory burden.

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• Students at Florida A&M U. React to Suspension of Club Recruiting
  02/02/2012 (from Chronicle of HIgher Education)
  

  Organization leaders are for the most part accepting the temporary ban, imposed after the death of a student from injuries believed to be caused by hazing.

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• Chambers of Dissent at U. at Buffalo
  02/02/2012 (from Chronicle of HIgher Education)
  

  Many in the faculty union want the university to sever ties with two politically active business groups. But some see membership as part of civic engagement.

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• 12 More Law Schools Face Lawsuits Over Job-Placement Claims
  02/02/2012 (from Chronicle of HIgher Education)
  

  The schools, primarily in California, New York, and Illinois, are accused of luring students with inflated job-placement and salary statistics.

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• Community-College Study Asks: What Helps Students Graduate?
  02/02/2012 (from Chronicle of HIgher Education)
  

  The Center for Community College Student Engagement is seeking to identify practices that work, and help colleges expand them to cover all students.

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• Graphic: 'Success' Programs at Community Colleges Miss Many Students
  02/02/2012 (from Chronicle of HIgher Education)
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