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Maine Governor Wants Localities to Tax Colleges
Maine Governor Paul LePage, a Republican, is proposing that local governments be allowed to tax colleges and other nonprofit organizations...
U. of Virginia Fraternity Reinstated
The University of Virginia has formally reinstated the fraternity named in a discredited Rolling Stone article, The Washington Post reported...
Report: Duke Ignored Warnings on Research Fraud
Duke University ignored a graduate student's warnings about possible misconduct in the lab of a cancer researcher, years before the...
Study: Financial Aid Drives 4-Year Enrollment, Persistence
Students who received privately funded scholarships were more likely than similarly qualified peers who did not to enroll in four-year...
Study: Digital Learning Effective for Health Professions
A review of 108 studies has concluded that digital learning is likely to be as effective as traditional in-person education...
Academic Minute: Telegony
In today's Academic Minute, Angela Crean, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of New South Wales, discusses telegony, the idea...
"This Week": The NLRB Ruling on Faculty Unions
On "This Week," Inside Higher Ed's free news podcast, two experts on faculty and labor, William A. Herbert and Gary...
Does Montclair State Need $210K Mascot Scuplture?
Some students at Montclair State University are asking why the institution needs to spend $210,000 on a 12-foot bronze statue...