April 2009 - Posts

• With Ballot Measures Lagging in Polls, California Colleges Prepare for More Cuts

  A slate of ballot measures designed to shore up California's precarious financial position is suffering in the polls, and state colleges are preparing to see their budgets further reduced if the measures fail. Read More... Posted Apr 30 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Debate Over Cost of College Starts With Who Gets to Define the Problem

  Administrators, faculty members, and financial officers agree that the cost of higher education amounts to a crisis, but they have different ideas about how to resolve it, says a report released today. Read More... Posted Apr 29 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Colleges Get Refunds After Translators at Chinese Fair Turn Out to Be Recruiters

  The Institute of International Education is reimbursing several American institutions for their entry fees after learning that some translators there were actually hired agents who took advantage of their position. Read More... Posted Apr 29 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Head of Anti-Defamation League Urged Santa Barbara to Act Against Critic of Israel

  The Jewish advocacy group's representative met with campus officials nd urged them to investigate a professor for academic misconduct after he e-mailed students with harsh criticism of Israel's war in Gaza. Read More... Posted Apr 29 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Negotiations Over Rules for Higher Education Act Enter Final Stage

  Stakeholders and Education Department officials are meeting to negotiate the regulations that will determine how reauthorized law is carried out. Read More... Posted Apr 29 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• As Flu Cases Mount, U.S. Students Abroad Stay Put

  College officials have not yet moved to pull students and faculty members out of Mexico, but they are monitoring the deadly outbreak of swine flu there. Read More... Posted Apr 28 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Mexico Cancels Classes Nationwide Amid Growing Fear of Epidemic

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• U.S. Colleges Suggest Simple Precautions and Devise Just-in-Case Strategies

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• Colleges Increase Efforts to Measure What Students Learn, Survey Finds

  Colleges appear to be intensifying efforts to assess student learning, according to a report scheduled for release today by the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Read More... Posted Apr 28 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Specialized Reunions Reconnect Alumni With Alma Mater, Encouraging Donations

  Gay and lesbian alumni of Yale University held their first reunion last weekend. Latino alumni held a similar event this month. Sponsoring such activities has become a trend in alumni affairs. Read More... Posted Apr 28 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• American Graduate Schools Are Mulling Europe's New 3-Year Degrees

  Some American graduate schools have processes in place to deal with Europe's three-year degrees, a new study has found. Read More... Posted Apr 28 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Not Moving On Up: Why Women Get Stuck at Associate Professor

  A new report from the Modern Language Association describes barriers that keep women at the rank of associate professor longer than men. Read More... Posted Apr 27 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Congress Is Poised to Ease Passage of Obama's Plan to End Bank-Based Lending

  Lawmakers and aides were completing a compromise plan over the weekend that could be quickly passed by both chambers this week. Read More... Posted Apr 27 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Interstate Group Works to Draw More Minorities Into Health Professions

  Educators who seek to recruit more Hispanic and Native American students into health-care fields met last week in Colorado to share strategies. Read More... Posted Apr 27 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Across the Americas, Internationalization of Higher Education Lags Behind

  More than 300 college administrators, professors and specialists from throughout the Americas and Europe met in Mexico last week to promote inter-American collaboration among universities and discuss the obstacles to doing so. Read More... Posted Apr 27 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News