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Student Success Academic Life

Study: 6 Behavioral Changes Affect Student Retention, Morale on College Campuses

A recent study from the Community College Research Center finds establishing best practices and championing them among professors can impact student outcomes and faculty engagement and create a more positive environment.

Quick Takes

NIH, Researchers’ Union Agree to Contract

The National Institutes of Health and a union representing its postbaccalaureate, graduate student and postdoctoral researchers have agreed to a...
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Opinion
Views

A Crisis of Trust in the Classroom

The work of teaching has never been harder, Seth C. Bruggeman writes.

By Seth C. Bruggeman

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Opinion
Career Advice Carpe Careers

Students and Research Mentors Can Navigate Career Conversations Together

Raquel Y. Salinas offers advice for graduate students and research mentors on how to have better conversations about career planning.

By Raquel Y. Salinas

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Faculty Academic Freedom

Denied Vote on Pro-BDS Resolution, MLA Convention Attendees Protest

The backlash continues to the Modern Language Association Executive Council’s fall decision not to let members vote on a pro-Palestinian resolution.

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Faculty Academic Freedom

Pro-Palestinian Columbia Professor Departs After Investigation

Katherine Franke, a law professor whose interview became the subject of a university investigation, says she’s effectively been terminated.

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Faculty Research

‘Historians Should Be Everywhere’: Questions for the AHA’s Retiring Leader

Jim Grossman, exiting after 15 years as executive director of the American Historical Association, discusses his efforts to multiply historians’ routes to tenure, The 1619 Project’s impact on history debates and why policymakers need historians.

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Faculty Academic Freedom

Watching Their Words: Faculty Say They’re Self-Censoring

Many scholars say they’re not giving certain assignments and are being careful in what they say to students—and to one another.