Officials overseeing Florida’s public universities voted Wednesday to stop offering sociology as a core course, despite strong support for the subject from professors, alumni, students and others. The Board of Governors removed sociology as an option for students when they choose from a menu of introductory courses to fulfill state graduation requirements. The decision followed […]
Jan. 24—SUNY Oneonta and Utica University have a new agreement to help Oneonta nursing students easily transition to Utica’s advanced nursing program. According to a media release, Utica University President Todd Pfannestiel, SUNY Oneonta President Alberto Cardelle, and other representatives announced a new articulation agreement Wednesday, Jan. 24. The purpose of the SUNY Oneonta-Utica University […]
Oksen Lisovyi, Ukraine’s Minister of Education and Science, has proposed decreasing the number of universities in Ukraine in a recent column for Ukrainska Pravda. He argued that the current number of universities is simply too large for the number of students graduating, noting that the state sometimes ends up “financing the walls” of many institutions […]
In an unmarked laboratory stationed between the campuses of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a splinter group of scientists is hunting for the next billion-dollar drug. The group, bankrolled with $500 million from some of the wealthiest families in American business, has created a stir in the world of academia by dangling seven-figure […]
Rufo’s attacks on universities absurd It was with great dismay and incredulity that I read the quotes of New College of Florida Board Trustee Christopher Rufo in Chris Anderson’s column regarding the “official positions” of Florida’s leading universities (“First New College and now Harvard: There’s no end in sight for DeSantis,” Jan. 5). One quote […]
FRANKFORT − A bill filed in the first week of Kentucky’s 2024 General Assembly would let university employees and students sue schools if they believe they’ve been discriminated against due to their “refusal to support or endorse any divisive concept.” Those “divisive concepts,” according to the GOP-backed Senate Bill 6, include the idea that one […]
Baltimore City will spend a federal grant on new food scrap drop-off locations at universities. The Department of Public Works received a $264,840 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the pilot programs designed to reduce and divert food waste from landfills and incineration. The drop-off sites will be at the Johns Hopkins University, […]
Artificial intelligence is touted to help save time and writer’s block with sites like ChatGPT and YouChat. But it’s also causing helping students across campuses everywhere cheat on assignments — and making it difficult for those not cheating to prove their work is, indeed, theirs. For UCF student Christian Bradley, the issues began after he […]
Election worker testifies Giuliani’s 2020 lies ruined her life Sam Levine Shaye Moss just ended approximately two hours of haunting testimony detailing how her life has been ruined ever since Rudy Giuliani spread lies about her after the 2020 election. Her worst fear, she said, is that her teenage son will come home to find […]