America is turning against higher education. Students are still signing up.
Politics, shrinking student pools, and AI mean a new era of uncertainty for higher education
Facebook malware threatens campus web security
Students will click on just about anything posted to their Facebook walls—a social media habit that has brought a flood of malware to college campus networks.
Arizona university founds civility institute
A university in Tucson is seeking to turn the shooting rampage that severely wounded U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords last month into a teachable moment with a new institute…
Mexico state congress asks ban of video game
A shoot-em-up video game set in the border town of Ciudad Juarez has angered local officials who are busy fighting all-too-real violence, reports the Washington Post.
University of Iowa may fire prof over eMails
The University of Iowa has started proceedings that could lead to the firing of a radiology professor who sent dozens of "prejudiced, insulting, and inflammatory" eMails to colleagues…
House Republicans seek to block FCC internet rules
House Republicans are seeking to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from enforcing new rules that prohibit broadband providers from interfering with internet traffic on their networks.
Is Google’s Facebook competitor almost ready?
The press has been speculating since the middle of last year about a new social networking product from Google — its big attempt to compete with Facebook, SocialBeat…
Tech tool could take the guessing out of college fundraising
College and university fundraising officials might not have to wonder how alums feel about their alma mater thanks to a computer program that can tell just how much…
For-profit college recruiters taught to use ‘pain,’ ‘fear,’ documents show
Newly-released internal training documents from several for-profit colleges illustrate a culture that encourages recruiters to increase enrollment by focusing on emotions such as "pain" and "fear" to attract…
A huge win for artificial intelligence … but what does it mean for humans?
