[ad_1] Mariama Diallo was walking the streets of New York City when she ran into a former professor of hers — a college “master” — from when she was an undergraduate at Yale University. Back then, the term “master” was a title used for the heads of residential colleges. Although Yale did away with the…
[ad_1] In October 2020, Simmons University announced an unusual deal. It would offer undergraduate degrees online with the help of the prominent online-program manager 2U. The attention on online undergraduate education wasn’t novel — as of fall 2019, about 15 percent of undergraduate students took their classes fully online. But the partnership was: Simmons, in…
[ad_1] Jessica Scull had just been accepted to Columbia University as a transfer student when she met the companion who would become a crucial source of strength in her life: a gray and white cat named Smokey. Scull, who had recently been diagnosed with ADHD, anxiety, and major depression when she adopted him, in May…
[ad_1] Nothing seemed amiss to McKenna Schramm when Ohio Valley University recruited her to run track. The campus tour had all the standard trappings: a walk-through of the dorms, a stop at the cafeteria, and a visit to the campus chapel. The admissions letter, dated January 8, 2020, looked a lot like the ones she’d…
[ad_1] The University of Illinois system’s Board of Trustees has fired a tenured professor who was accused of sexually assaulting one of his graduate students and behaving inappropriately with five others. The trustees voted unanimously on Thursday to revoke the tenure of Paul A. Schewe, an associate professor of criminology at the University of Illinois…
[ad_1] A job posting at the University of California at Los Angeles drew harsh criticism from academics over the weekend for asking applicants to work on a “without salary basis.” Though the posting has since been taken down, speculation has persisted about whether its existence was the result of bureaucratic opacity, academe’s penchant for exploiting…
[ad_1] As the pandemic dragged into a second year, Miko McFarland knew that something wasn’t right — not with her and not with her colleagues at the University of Kentucky. People were stressed out, on edge; their nerves were frayed. Self-motivated high achievers were struggling in their jobs. Some were developing physical-health problems due to…