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TEHRAN IN SOME OF THE FIRST organized academic visits to Iran by Americans since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Brian Spooner, a professor of Persian studies at the University of Pennsylvania [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG The University of Nebraska at Lincoln has sued the U.S. government to try to force it to respond to a petition the institution filed 21 months ago [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Ever since last spring, when the federal Commission on the Future of Higher Education floated an idea to dismantle the current college-accreditation system, accrediting groups have been [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is trying to promote a strong accreditation system to improve teacher training and to ward off possible government moves [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG At a time when the U.S. Education Department is pressing accreditors to be stricter with the colleges they oversee, a federal judge has issued a ruling favorable [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Despite improvements, U.S. visa-approval procedures are still needlessly slow and unfriendly for foreign scholars, students, and others, and are in urgent need of revision, a coalition of [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Vancouver, British Columbia -- On an upper shelf in Carl E. Wieman's campus office here are a dozen framed awards representing the highest honors in his field, [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG 'Modern Political Satire,' Drake University There are no sacred cows in this course, which explores how satire has been used to mock everything dear to anyone. For [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG 'Human Ability: Unplugged,' College of New Jersey This freshman seminar is one of the few liberal-arts courses in the country where students with intellectual disabilities study alongside [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG In New York, a controversy ignited after the Daily News tabloid protested the almost two-decades-old unofficial name of a small student center at the City College of [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG After a painful decision in September to admit men (The Chronicle, September 22, 2006), Randolph-Macon Woman's College has settled on a new name. As of July 1, [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Regional accrediting bodies took the following actions during the last two months: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Bishop State Community College, a historically black two-year public [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG 'Miracles,' University of Notre Dame A recent university news release lauding this course mocked secular explanations for what the Christian faiths hold as miracles. Skeptics, for example, [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG After months of determined efforts to keep going amid Iraq's deepening violence and chaos, the National Library and Archive, the country's largest depository of books and documents, [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG An Education Department committee that oversees accreditation organizations has barred the American Academy for Liberal Education from accrediting new institutions or programs for at least half a [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Thirty-two American students were named as Rhodes scholars in November. The distinction covers all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford, [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG The University of California at Los Angeles plans to hire an independent investigator to examine whether campus police officers used excessive force when they shot a student [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG 'The History and Craft of Wine,' Delaware Valley College Robert M. Pierson, who teaches the course, has had a lifelong love affair with wine. In fact he [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Consider four professors: One says he is a fraud, one encourages students to dig up old inner-city churchyards, one dresses up as a black hole, and one [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG In a grim escalation of violence against Iraqi higher education, gunmen attacked the offices of a government education agency in Baghdad last week and abducted scores of [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Washington -- When the federal Commission on the Future of Higher Education delivered its final report to the secretary of education in September, accreditors and many higher-education [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG The number of foreign students in the United States remained steady last academic year, ending two years of declines. At the same time, the number of new [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG The acting chair of the Board of Trustees of Gallaudet University resigned last week, a day after Sen. John McCain also stepped down from the board. Both [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Total foreign enrollment at American graduate schools increased by 1 percent this fall, after three consecutive years of decline. In what is seen as a promising sign, [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG and ELIZABETH F. FARRELL Washington -- The arrests this month of 133 protesters who had blocked the main entrance to Gallaudet University allowed classes to resume but [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG A student-led protest against the choice of a new president for Gallaudet University intensified into a shutdown of the campus last week and raised questions about whether [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Yungas region, Bolivia -- Time and again, Alison L. Spedding set out early in the morning with one or another small group of women and children here [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG A newcomer is challenging the organization that has accredited colleges of teacher education for more than a half-century. The Teacher Education Accrediting Council, or TEAC, which is [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG 'Conflict Resolution: The Israeli-Palestinian Experiment,' University of Maryland at College Park Every summer two professors -- one Israeli, one Palestinian -- share a house, a cellphone, and [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Iran's hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has turned up the pressure on the country's universities by calling on conservative students to oppose liberal and secular faculty members. 'Today [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG and DAN CARNEVALE Dozens of Iranian professors and alumni en route to a university reunion in California had their visas revoked after they landed in the United [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG An international group of educators, higher-education experts, and publishers that met in Berlin last month has come up with a set of principles for ranking colleges and [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Belle S. Wheelan became the president of a leading accrediting organization soon after a controversy that would have made many executives run the other way. In December [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG 'Exorcism and Prayer of Liberation,' Pontifical Academy Regina Apostolorum In America even many Catholics probably associate exorcism foremost with the 1973 Hollywood film, The Exorcist, in which [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG The United States announced last week that it would open the Fulbright Foreign Student Program to Libyan students, following its decision to re-establish diplomatic relations with Libya. [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Washington -- The president-designate of the world's only university for the deaf remains under siege, after weeks of protest by students and faculty members, some of whom [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Foreign graduate students studying science or engineering at an American college would have an easier time staying on to work in the United States after graduation under [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Some 45 Libyan scholars attended a conference on democracy at Columbia University last month, the first major academic delegation from Libya to visit the United States in [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG and SARA LIPKA Duke University announced last week that it was suspending its men's lacrosse team from competition as police investigate allegations that team members raped an [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG The Latin American Studies Association has announced that it intends to move its meetings outside the United States, after the Bush administration prevented all Cuban scholars from [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG An umbrella group of accrediting organizations has announced the first winners of its new Award for Institutional Progress in Student Learning Outcomes. The four winning programs or [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG A new scholarship program sponsored by the government of Saudi Arabia has proved to be a bonanza for American universities facing an overall decline in foreign-student enrollments, [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG and SHAILAJA NEELAKANTAN The U.S. government has taken 'exceptional measures' to grant a visa to a prominent Indian scientist whose difficulties in obtaining a visa in February [...]

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG A Bolivian scholar hired by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln has been unable to take up his post because the federal government has withheld his visa. [...]