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Colleges offer summer programs to improve students' academic success The Plain Dealer: The Emerging Scholars Program at Case Western Reserve allows incoming first-year students from Northeast Ohio to take credit classes, including math and writing, and attend workshops on college success skills.…

Faculty members are invited to apply to participate in the fourth Mentor Fellows program, to be conducted by UCITE during the fall semester. This series of seminars is designed to engage faculty in thoughtful discussions with other faculty on mentoring and on how to improve the quality of mentoring…

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Beamer-Schneider Professor in Ethics and associate professor of philosophy, has been selected as an expert reviewer on Working Group III's contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report. This report will serve as an update the 2007…

School of Law Dean Lawrence Mitchell recently was appointed to the Advisory Committee of the English Language Edition of the Peking University Law Journal. The law school reached an agreement earlier this year with Peking University Law School to provide for faculty and student exchanges, visiting…

The Spartan men’s basketball team is entering a whole new ball game: running a cake business. Cakes at Case allows family, friends and co-workers to personalize cakes for Case Western Reserve University students and employees. Each cake will be freshly made by a local bakery and then delivered to…

“This isn’t ninth grade writing anymore” seems to be the breakthrough statement that clicks with Case Western Reserve University students tutored in writing by Susan Dominguez. It’s no easy task to make the leap from high school to college-level writing, said Dominguez, an English department…

The Medicaid ruling's ripple effect Politico: The Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act could lead to a series of legal battles over the strings attached to federal grants for everything from transportation to the environment. For example, when it comes to federal money being withheld…

Why Spider-Man is pulling in moviegoers. Again. The Christian Science Monitor: The Amazing Spider-Man opened Tuesday to big ticket sales, even though it’s just five years after the previous franchise. The Peter Parker character draws fans in, said SAGES lecturer Brad Ricca. “A teenager can't…

To create more jobs, go where the jobs are The Wall Street Journal: Scott Shane, the A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, recently wrote an article in which he argued that “if we want to create a lot of jobs, it would make more sense to get existing small businesses—across…

Analysis: Legal eagles redefine healthcare winners, losers Reuters: Over the past few days, some on the left and right are now viewing the Supreme Court’s Commerce Clause ruling on the Affordable Care Act as largely academic and say it won’t affect any current laws. “I’ve yet to see a list of…