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Academic Minute: Bright Is the New Black
In today’s Academic Minute, Stuart Gaffin of Columbia University explains how the colors and materials used by urban planners can...
Professors Hold 1-Day Strike at 2 Cal State Campuses
Faculty members at two campuses of the California State University System -- Dominguez Hills and East Bay -- held one-day...
Embracing the Stereotype
Students at Queen's University in Canada have a reputation for being a little spoiled, a little rich and a little...
Ending Aid for the 'Average'
LSU ends a major scholarship program for alumni children -- deciding it can no longer afford to favor a group based on birth instead of need or ability.
Taxes, Not Death, for Humanities
Study suggests that private colleges with many such programs may pay a price in tuition and research revenues.
Raising the Bar on Quality Assurance
In redesign of accreditation process, Western agency will publish reports on colleges and require institutions to define graduates' "levels of proficiency" -- but proposals to compel peer comparisons face pushback.
Not Feeling the Kinship
Anthropologists debate whether their discipline is divided into humanities and science tribes, and wonder why they can’t all get along.
Sociology and Wikipedia
Just a few years after academics traded horror stories about the online encyclopedia, scholarly societies begin to embrace it.