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Ex-Professor Admits He Made Meth in College Lab
Bradley Rowland, a former professor of chemistry at Henderson State University, in Arkansas, pleaded guilty to manufacturing methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia...
Saint Michael’s President Blames Outbreak on Halloween Parties
Saint Michael’s College in Vermont held Friday’s classes online due to an outbreak of COVID-19. Saint Michael’s, which has about...
Report: Student Housing Badly Managed by National Company
Students across the country living in apartments owned by the same property management company are reporting broken elevators, malfunctioning fire...
These Colleges Had the Highest Student Voter Turnout
Three colleges tied for the highest overall undergraduate voting rate in the 2020 elections: College of the Atlantic, the University...
The New NCAA Constitution Hints at Big Changes Ahead
A new draft of the National Collegiate Athletic Association constitution ‘embraces’ compensation for athletes’ names, images and likenesses and promises to give each division the power to govern itself.
Study Warns of ‘Educational Gag Orders’
A new report from PEN America, “Educational Gag Orders: Legislative Restrictions on the Freedom to Read, Learn, and Teach,” says that in the first nine months of 2021, 24 state legislatures introduced 54 bills that would restrict the teaching and training of subjects including race in K-12 schools, higher education or state agencies and institutions.
Opinion
How Colleges Can Counter ‘Cancel Culture’
Constraints on discussions of important social issues, however sensitive, subvert the goals of a liberal arts education, write David Wippman and Glenn C. Altschuler.
Academic Minute: Can We Become an Equal Opportunity Society?
Today on the Academic Minute: Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, asks whether we...