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Standing Up for Mental Health, Losing Faculty Job

She spoke out against the termination of her campus's only mental health counselor. A student died, and she got canned. Now this professor is suing Florida Poly for infringing on her protected speech.

Grades: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Cornell joins the growing number of highly selective institutions whose business schools have adopted nondisclosure policies concerning grades and recruitment.

Early-Alert Systems Seen as Mixed Bag

Early-alert systems designed to catch struggling students are ubiquitous in higher ed, but not every institution is seeing desired results.

A TA Union Contract, 2 Years Later

Brandeis grad students win significant gains in a union contract, even if chances have dimmed for some of their counterparts as Trump administration has exerted influence on NLRB.
Opinion

Escaping Westworld

In the future, we won't be able to sidestep the ethical and policy issues linked to the use of technology, writes Lynn Pasquerella, so we must confront the question of how we best prepare students for it.
Opinion

What Students Say Is Good Teaching

Harry Brighouse shares instructional practices that undergraduates say they have rarely encountered and think should be more widely shared.
Opinion

Mapping the Academic Genome

Technology is enabling the rise of precision academics in higher education, writes Myk Garn, who describes the game-changing potential of mapping and coding the academic genome.

Record-Breaking Lecture

University of North Texas professor covered the complete history of Texas in 26 hours to set a record and raise money to support an archive on campus.