July 2008 - Posts

• Professor Who Helped Disarm Gunman in Church Shootings Felt No Danger

  Colleagues are not surprised that John Bohstedt, an emeritus professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, was among those who moved to stop a shooter in a Knoxville church last Sunday. Read More... Posted Jul 31 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• New Fantasy Sports League Tests NCAA's Amateurism Rules

  The debate over the commercialization of college sports intensified this week when CBS Sports announced it was creating a fantasy football league using college athletes' names and likenesses. Read More... Posted Jul 31 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Microsoft Rolls Out Publishing and Research Tools for Academics

  Microsoft makes a bid to become a big player in academic publishing with new tools that help scholars collaborate, determine fair use, and format papers for online databases. Read More... Posted Jul 31 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Britain Announces New Restrictions on Foreign Students

  As part of a shake-up of the country's immigration system, Britain plans to adopt new rules that will crack down on bogus colleges that allow foreigners with poor educational credentials to obtain student visas. Read More... Posted Jul 31 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• House and Senate Negotiators Approve Compromise Higher Education Act

  The long-delayed bill that would set federal higher-education policy for at least the next five years includes penalties for states that slow down spending on higher education. Read More... Posted Jul 30 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Commonfund Issues a Truer Measure of Colleges' Inflation Costs

  The organization that tracks inflation for higher education says a more-accurate estimate of colleges' overall annual cost increases for the year ending June 30 is 4.6 percent. The higher estimate is due to a spike in utilities costs. Read More..... Posted Jul 30 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Professors Rally Around a Former Student Jailed on Terrorism Charges

  Faculty members say the harsh conditions of Syed Fahad Hashmi's detainment are meant to send a message to other politically active students. Read More... Posted Jul 30 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• NIH's Grant-Awards System Is Prone to Bias, Report Says

  A University of Texas researcher says a few review-committee members can wield too much influence over others in choosing recipients of National Institutes of Health grants. Read More... Posted Jul 30 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Black-White Gap in Wealth Mobility Could Affect College Access

  A new report by the Center for American Progress suggests that the educational and economic progress of black families is being hindered by racial gaps in the accumulation of wealth. Read More... Posted Jul 30 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• New Dean at Chapel Hill Brings Apt Name to His Post

  James W. Dean Jr., who begins work on Friday as dean of the business school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says he has long been desensitized to being addressed as "Dean Dean." Read More... Posted Jul 30 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Universities Could End Research on Some Federally Eligible Stem-Cell Lines

  Several of the top institutions that conduct embryonic stem-cell research are considering ending research on nearly a quarter of the cell lines eligible for federal funds because of new ethical concerns raised about the origin of the lines. Read More... Posted Jul 28 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• With Compromises, Higher-Ed Bill Could Move Through Congress This Week

  The bill is expected to include compromises on the structure of a program to provide grants to institutions that serve large numbers of black students and on the penalties for states that do not maintain a certain level of spending on higher education... Posted Jul 28 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• News Analysis: Drawing Lessons on Accountability From Europe

  The author of a new report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy argues that the United States needs to look to Europe for ideas on how to hold colleges responsible for what students learn. Read More... Posted Jul 28 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Mellon Foundation Assesses the State of Scholarly Publishing

  A report from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation examines whether its new grant-making strategy is paying off, and hints at where the foundation thinks scholarly publishing has gone wrong lately -- and what may put it right again. Read More... Posted Jul 28 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Sen. Grassley Pressures Universities on Science Conflicts and Financial Aid

  Sen. Charles E. Grassley, in an exclusive interview, says universities need to better police their scientists for financial conflicts and spend more endowment money on student financial aid Read More... Posted Jul 25 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News