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A recent study by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University's Teachers College found that students, especially those from low-income backgrounds, enrolled in programs incorporating college courses with their high school curriculum were more likely to earn high school diplomas, to pursue higher education and to stay in college beyond one semester. Read more...

Statistics, linguistics courses essential For the past decade, every time I have attended a faculty meeting where a promotion case was discussed, I have had to endure talk by my colleagues about class ratings and professor ratings where no potentially intervening variables (such as class size and heterogeneity of class population) were ever statistically controlled for. Read more...

Earlier this month, the UC Academic Student Employees and the University of California agreed to a new contract for teaching assistants that included wage increases, family-friendly benefits, anti-discrimination provisions and workload protections. Read more...

It may have been inevitable, but the wildfires that continue to ravage California and the corresponding government response have spawned untenable comparisons to Hurricane Katrina and what was largely considered an inadequate and mismanaged relief effort by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Read more...

Don’t put restrictions on love In response to “Professor critiques academic legislation governing student-faculty romance” (News, Oct. 25), cheers to Professor Paul Abramson for taking the university to task for its “no exceptions” policy to student-teacher dating. Read more...