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Early Adversity and Brain Development
Early life adversities can have a lifelong impact. In today’s Academic Minute, Tallie Z. Baram of the University of California...
Dissecting the Campus Speech Problem
A gathering of academic administrators gets schooled in why students see their speech rights slipping—and what colleges can do about it.
Congress Eyes Income-Share Agreement Reform, Again
The bipartisan bill would create new guardrails for income-share agreements used in higher education programs and is supported by ISA providers. Critics, however, view ISAs as a predatory form of financial aid and a bad solution to making college affordable.
Opinion
Normalizing the Unknown for First-Gen Students
Higher ed institutions must reassure first-generation students that it’s OK not to have all the answers, writes Nick Ladany, a first-gen student who became a university president.
Report: HBCUs Need More Federal Funding
A new report from the United Negro College Fund, which represents private historically Black colleges and universities, calls on Congress...
Appeals Court Rejects Suit by College of the Ozarks
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has upheld a district court’s ruling against a suit by the...
Early Adversity and Brain Development: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Tallie Z. Baram, distinguished professor of neurological sciences at the University of California, Irvine, examines...
Cal State Kept Harassment Findings Against 2 Professors Secret
California State University San Marcos kept secret the finding that two professors had engaged in “egregious sexual harassment and misconduct,” according to the Los Angeles Times.