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New Programs: Computer Science, Finance, Risk Management, Entrepreneurship, Entertainment Design, Virtual Reality, Neuroscience
Bethel College, in Indiana, is starting an undergraduate major in computer science. Cazenovia College is starting a bachelor of science...
10-Day Sit-In at Seton Hall
Protests lead to meetings, a scuffle between a student and professor, and a relocation of the president's office.
Open Searches and Diversity
Hoping to increase faculty diversity, UC Davis is holding eight open searches focused on candidates' contributions to diversity, instead of narrow disciplinary expertise.
‘How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education’
New book outlines how rich donors have become more assertive about how their money should be used and explores the costs to higher ed.
Connecting Data Science to ‘Almost Every Domain of Inquiry’
As reach of big data and AI grows, UC Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveil plans for major expansions.
Opinion
The Book at the End of the World
Scott McLemee reviews Timothy Beal's The Book of Revelation: A Biography.
Should Professors Teach More to Avoid Program Cuts?
At one campus doing so, many adjuncts will lose positions, but departments aren't being eliminated.
Opinion
The Overlooked Messages of the Sokal-Squared Hoax
Few people seemed to have noticed that it was a put-down of academics concerned with racial issues, write Joel P. Christensen and Matthew A. Sears.