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Postdoc Pay: A Women's Issue
If universities want to retain more female academic scientists, it's time to increase postdoc salaries, writes Jennifer Bussell.
Fat-Shaming in Academe
Professor sets off furor with comment on Twitter about obese Ph.D. applicants.
Waiting to See Punishment
After learning that a faculty member at San Jose State was found by the university to have inappropriately touched a student, many want to know why he's still teaching.
Quest for 'Genius Babies'?
Jason Richwine quit Heritage Foundation amid controversy over his Harvard dissertation on race and IQ. Critics are now raising questions about work by a Michigan State physicist and vice president.
Race and Inequity
Segregation in higher education remains largely ignored, but two new studies show increasing concentrations of disadvantaged students at community colleges can affect completion rates.
Graduates Less Diverse Than Peers
Racial demographics of those earning bachelor's degrees in 2007-8 not reflective of overall student body, report finds.
Opinion
To Professors of Asian-American Studies
Jonathan Marks asks members of the discipline’s national association: Do you really all support the call for a boycott of Israeli academics?
Could Class Trump Race?
New research says that by examining both socioeconomic status and "overachievement," colleges could increase racial diversity without considering race.