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Unexplained Gender Wage Disparity for Early-Career Physicians
Unexplained pay disparity exists between male and female early-career physician-researchers, according to an article published in the Academic Medicine journal...
Academic Minute: Heat and Tidally Locked Planets
In today’s Academic Minute, Nicolas Cowan of Northwestern University explains how cloud cover moderates the temperature of tidally-locked exoplanets orbiting...
Benedictine U. Bars Alcohol in Student Residences
Benedictine University, in Illinois, has barred alcohol in student residencies, even for students of legal drinking age, The Chicago Tribune...
Anger Over Lecturer Who Won't Teach Female Authors
Academics at the University of Toronto and elsewhere are rushing to condemn a visiting lecturer there who said in an...
Harvard Press Defends Publishing Controversial Book
University presses -- like other publishers -- know that not all reviews will be favorable, and generally don't respond to...
Report: Football Players Graduate at Rates Lower Than Non-Athletes
An alternative, annual study of athletes’ graduation rates has again found that football players, especially those who are black, completed...
Program Helps Baby Boomers Complete Degrees
More than 7,000 baby boomers have completed a degree or credential at a community college through the Plus 50 Completion...
U. of Iowa Sees Large Drop in Entering Law Students
The University of Iowa has only 94 students in this year's entering law school class, down from 155 members a...