Category : Education

College of Engineering at Pennsylvania State University Has Named Tonya Peeples as Dean

Tonya L. Peeples has been named the permanent Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering in the Pennsylvania State University College of Engineering, effective January 1. Peeples has held the role in an interim capacity since July. “Being chosen to l...

Study Finds That Large Cities Foster Socioeconomic Segregation

A new study led by researchers at Stanford University finds that there is very little interaction between people in different socioeconomic groups in the nation’s largest cities. Big cities may be more socioeconomically segregated than small ci...

Amid Accreditation Crisis, a Change in Leadership at St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina

Two days after the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges voted to strip historically Black St. Augustine’s University of its accreditation, president Christine McPhail was fired. The Southern Association of College...

Scholars From Sub-Saharan African Nations Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities

According to the latest Open Doors report from the Institute on International Education, in the 2021-22 academic year, there were 90,891 scholars from foreign nations teaching at colleges and universities in the United States. More than a third of th...