November 2007 - Posts

• New Study Calls for 'Paradigm Shift' in Social-Science Graduate Education

  Doctoral education in the social sciences needs to take into account significant changes in the job market and uncertain early career prospects, says a new study that tracked the experiences of recent Ph.D.'s. Read More... Posted Nov 30 2007, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Report on How to Work With the Military Stirs Debate at Anthropologists' Meeting

  At the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, scholars continued to debate the ethical rules that should constrain cooperation with military and intelligence agencies. Read More... Posted Nov 30 2007, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Report Faults NIH Safety Analysis of Biosafety Laboratory at Boston U.

  A safety evaluation of a laboratory being built by Boston University to study the most dangerous microbes suffered from "serious problems" and was "not sound and credible," said a National Research Council panel on Thursday. Read More... Posted Nov 30 2007, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• North Dakota Researchers May Get Approval to Grow Industrial Hemp

  The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is coming close to approving a proposal from North Dakota State University to grow and study industrial hemp. Read More... Posted Nov 30 2007, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Brandeis Professor in Trouble for Classroom Comments Gets Faculty Panel's Support

  The university violated the academic freedom of a professor of politics, a faculty panel said on Thursday, when it penalized him after students complained that he made racist remarks during a lecture. Read More... Posted Nov 30 2007, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• State Digest: Call for Universal ACT Testing in Colorado, and Other News From the States

  A governor's panel in Colorado has recommended that the ACT be administered universally in high school. All of North Carolina's two-year colleges have been directed to admit illegal immigrants. For those stories and other news from the states... Posted Nov 30 2007, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• For University Presses, Distribution Can Bring Profits—and Some Problems

  Presses that distribute books for smaller publishers to earn extra income have learned they can be attacked for the contents of volumes they have neither selected nor edited. Read More... Posted Nov 29 2007, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Canada Starts a 'Branding' Campaign to Help Universities Recruit More Foreign Students

  At a conference in Ottawa this week, Canada's internationally-focused educators got an early glimpse of something they have long sought: a national strategy to help them attract more students from abroad. Read More... Posted Nov 29 2007, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Under Pressure to Give Speedy Crime Alerts, Campus Officials Worry About the Information's Usefulness

  More than seven months after the shootings at Virginia Tech, colleges continue to grapple with questions about how—and when—to alert students of potential dangers. Read More... Posted Nov 28 2007, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• A Border Fence Would Split a Higher-Education Community, Colleges Argue

  The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College filed a resolution on Tuesday opposing the U.S. government's plans to erect 700 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. Read More... Posted Nov 28 2007, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Minority Students Increasingly Cluster at Minority-Serving Institutions, Federal Report Shows

  Undergraduates who are members of minority groups are increasingly concentrated at colleges that are classified as "minority-serving," according to a new U.S. Education Department report. Read More... Posted Nov 28 2007, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Educators Discuss Canada's Gains in Internationalizing Campuses and Ways of Extending That Trend

  Although many Canadian universities say they are committed to international education, concerns remain about the low number of Canadian students studying abroad and a decline in the number of institutions that require study of a foreign language to earn... Posted Nov 28 2007, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• U. of Oregon Settles Whistle-Blower Suit Over Foreign-Student Program

  The university agreed to pay $500,000 to a former professor who said administrators and faculty members at the institution retaliated against her after she blew the whistle on a problematic graduate program for foreign students. Read More... Posted Nov 28 2007, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Educators Suggest 'Mental-Health First Aid' for International Students

  Students from different cultures who study far from home are at greater risk for mental-health problems, several experts said at an international-education conference in Canada on Monday. They suggested programs that can respond to such students'... Posted Nov 27 2007, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Wisconsin Group Welcomes Stem-Cell Advance, Despite Potential Effect on Its Patents

  Patenting officials at the University of Wisconsin at Madison are sharing in the scientific excitement over last week's announcements by researchers there and at Kyoto University, in Japan, that new techniques had been found to generate versatile... Posted Nov 26 2007, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News