Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Image: California State University, Chico, is in turmoil over how administrators dealt with a professor accused of having sex with a graduate student and then threatening to kill two colleagues who reported him. "I know this past week has been deeply disturbing and unsettling to our students, faculty and staff," President Gayle E.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A man who holds degrees from not one but two Ivy League universities, Harvard and Yale, has mounted an assault on our institutions of higher education that will leave them weaker and of significantly less value to the many thousands of students they serve. the provost, who can ignore all other evaluations of the targeted faculty member.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Image: Active learning, or instructional methods that actively engage students in their own learning, is on the rise. A new study is therefore concerning—it found that limited access to active learning classrooms forced students to self-sort based on their social networks or their attitudes toward learning. The solution?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This dual reality was thrown into stark relief last week when Thomas Meixner, professor and chair of hydrology and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona, was shot dead in his office building, apparently by a former graduate student in the department. A second, unnamed person reportedly was injured by a bullet fragment.

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