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PubPeer Creators Launch Foundation, Reveal Identities (Sort Of)
How do you avoid personalizing a website based on critiquing scientific research (or risking professional retaliation for it)? Remain anonymous...
Study: Appalachian Students Mask Dialects in Class
It’s been called academe’s last acceptable prejudice: that against rural, Southern students. And a new study supports that claim, suggesting...
Harvard Responds to Faculty Criticism of Health Plan
Nearly a year after announcing controversial changes to faculty and staff health care benefits, including the introduction of coinsurance and...
Franklin Pierce U Goes Test Optional in Admissions
Franklin Pierce University announced last week that it is ending a requirement that applicants submit SAT or ACT scores. A...
Indian Scholar Who Angered Religious Groups Killed
Malleshappa Madivalappa Kalburgi, a prominent Indian scholar whose criticism of the worship of idols offended many religious groups, was shot...
Push to Protect Students at Unaccredited Law Schools
The State Bar of California is moving toward adopting a rule to require unaccredited law schools to disclose their dropout...
Report: Black, Latino Freshmen Feel Financial Stress
New research from the University of Chicago has found that many black and Latino college freshmen feel significant financial strain...
Academic Minute: Influence of Violent Video Games
In today's Academic Minute, Chris Ferguson, a psychologist at Stetson University, discusses his research on whether violent video games lead...