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Trump’s ‘Secret Weapon’? College Accreditation
Accreditors said the plan was not practical and represented a shift for the former president. The issue of accreditation has become the subject of much debate between the two leading Republicans eyeing the presidency in 2024.
A Revised Second-Chance Pell Experiment
Students in prison will be able to access the Pell Grant when new rules take effect this summer as part of a revised pilot program.
Tweet Prompts Calls for Change at NSF
A viral social media post sparked a conversation about how accessible the National Science Foundation’s prominent Graduate Research Fellowship Program is to students from underrepresented backgrounds.
Research Finds No Gender Bias in Academic Science
Reviewing decades of studies, researchers with “adversarial” perspectives conclude that tenure-track women and men in STEM receive comparable grant funding, journal acceptances and recommendation letters—and that women have an edge over men in hiring.