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Tentative Deal Ends Faculty Strike at Eastern Michigan
A tentative agreement has ended a faculty strike at Eastern Michigan University. Eastern Michigan faculty went on strike a week...
Why Are People Antiscience and What Can We Do About It? Academic Minute
Changing a person’s attitude on a subject can be tricky. In today’s Academic Minute, Simon Fraser University’s Aviva Philipp-Muller explains...
Who’ll Pay for Public Access to Federally Funded Research?
The White House painted an incomplete economic picture of its new policy for free, immediate access to research produced with federal grants. Will publishers adapt their business models to comply, or will scholars be on the hook?
‘Unraveling Faculty Burnout’
Author charts her way back from severe faculty burnout in new book. While the work includes individual coping strategies, it’s also a wake-up call to institutions to stop perpetuating a culture of overwork.
‘U.S. News’ Changes Policy on Testing
Magazine announces that it won’t punish colleges where few students submit scores; Columbia admits to providing incorrect information for past rankings.
Yeshiva U Wins Gay-Rights Case, for Now
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor rules that the university need not recognize an LGBTQ organization.
Opinion
Lawyers, Guns and Autonomy
A Montana Supreme Court ruling upholding the regents’ authority to ban firearms on campuses is a victory that nevertheless reinforces the academy’s antidemocratic constitution, Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn writes.
The Week in Admissions News
High school students are optimistic about the future; Princeton ups what it gives in aid; students want diversity; COVID-19 on campus.