May 2008 - Posts

• Higher Education Is in Flux as Demographics Change, Federal Report Shows

  For-profit colleges serve a bigger share of a market that includes an increasing number of women and minority students, the U.S. Education Department says. Read More... Posted May 30 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Cold Reality Intrudes on Diversity Conference in Disney World

  A scholar of ethnic studies told diversity officers attending the conference on race and ethnicity in higher education that they were complicit in helping colleges appear to be far more concerned with equity than is actually the case. Read More... Posted May 30 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• News Analysis: Student-Loan Rescue Plan Has Hidden Costs and Benefits

  After months of promoting doomsday scenarios for the federal student-lending system, loan companies appear to have won terms that could help both the lenders and the student borrowers. Read More... Posted May 30 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• International Educators Get a Glimpse of a New Sevis and of Candidates' Views

  At Nafsa's meeting, federal officials outlined pending changes in the tracking system for foreign students, and representatives of the presidential contenders discussed their candidates' views. Read More... Posted May 30 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Cultural Attitudes Affect Girls' Math Performance, Analysis Finds

  Culture, not innate ability, may be behind girls' poor performance on mathematics tests, an international study finds. Read More... Posted May 30 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Journals Find Fakery in Many Images Submitted to Support Research

  As computer programs make images easier than ever to manipulate, editors at a growing number of scientific publications are turning into image detectives -- and are alarmed at the level of tampering they find. Read More... Posted May 29 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Microsoft's Book-Search Project Has a Surprise Ending

  University librarians, looking for ways to get their materials online, are sad to see Microsoft pull out of the book-digitization market. Read More... Posted May 29 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Scholars Urge Colleges to Retain Data on Race That New Federal Rules Would Blur

  New federal guidelines will categorize many students simply as "two or more races." Some scholars say that will not allow colleges to keep adequate track of historically underrepresented minorities. Read More... Posted May 29 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Government Red Tape Is a Top Concern for International Educators

  In several sessions during Nafsa's meeting, administrators complained about proposed regulatory changes. Read More... Posted May 29 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• British Faculty Union Calls for Preconditions on Working With Israeli Academics

  Opponents called union "racist" and "McCarthyite" after it passed a resolution asking members to question Israeli academics on their political views. Read More... Posted May 29 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Researchers Worry About Inflated Measures of Student Engagement

  Three researchers from Cornell University argue in a paper that surveys of student engagement may not be reliable because of low response rates and overrepresentation of women with good grades. Read More... Posted May 28 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Hughes Institute Will Add $600-Million to Biomedical Research

  The money from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will be shared by 56 new investigators. The funds are expected to be a boon to the 31 universities that employ those investigators as well. Read More... Posted May 28 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Conference Participants Discuss Key Issues in International Education

  Strategies for offering students a more international experience and the changing patterns in study abroad are among the topics being discussed at the annual meeting of Nafsa: Association of International Educators this week. Read More... Posted May 28 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Southern U. at New Orleans to Reinstate 3 of the Programs Cut After Katrina

  A statewide board also approved a new building for the business school on the campus that was hardest hit by the hurricane. Read More... Posted May 28 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Study Finds Graduation Gap for First-Generation Students, Regardless of Preparation

  The analysis, by the College Board, found that first-generation students were, by every measure, less likely than their peers to finish college. Read More... Posted May 28 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News