A recent article published by the Chronicle of Higher Education on a small rural town in the Missouri Bootheel brought attention to its declining, sick population. The article suggested that residents...
President Robert Brown’s salary is perhaps the most commonly complained about thing at Boston University, aside from the cost of tuition itself. Everyone on campus seems to know of his seven-figure salary,...
Although classes didn’t start until Tuesday, some Boston University faculty spent the weekend hard at work. As students flooded back to campus, unpacking boxes and decorating dorm rooms, BU lecturers...
When a system is broken, it is illogical to keep moving forward. A blown gasket or a punctured tire needs fixing, yet the driver or machinist must first know that something is wrong; to function again,...
Throughout the 2013-14 academic year, 79 percent of male and female professors of all ranks with or without tenure at Boston University were white, according to an interactive data map published Sunday...
Safe in his eighth floor office at 1 Silber Way, Boston University President Robert Brown gazes upon a bustling Commonwealth Avenue campus. Although he rarely steps outside, he runs the University in a...
Diversifying the college experience through the performing arts
Kathryn Vaz, now a College of Communication sophomore, took art classes every year during high school. She was vice president of the drama...
A majority of professors who teach massive open online courses do not believe credit should be awarded, yet believe the courses play an important role in the changing face of education and have inherent...
A significant percentage of employers prefer students with work experience outside of a college environment to students with no experience and high GPAs, according to new data.
“I’ve seen there...
CourseSmart, a company that sells electronic textbooks, is introducing a tool that will enable professors and others to monitor how much time students spend reading and how many notes they make, according...
