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Pandemic Higher Ed Relief Funds Kept Students Enrolled and Institutions Open
A new report from the Education Department details how the billions in COVID-19 emergency relief aid helped millions of students remain enrolled in college. Students received $1,507, on average, in emergency aid.
Opinion
Student Health and Climate Awareness: We Can Have Both
Educators can help students transform climate anxiety into meaningful action, writes Paul F. Steinberg.
Berkeley Fires Women’s Swim Coach for Bullying and Bias
The University of California, Berkeley, fired Teri McKeever, its women’s swimming coach on Tuesday, the Southern California News Group reported...
What Does Pornography Tell Us?
What does pornography tell us? In today’s Academic Minute, St. John’s University’s Kathleen Lubey examines this from a historical standpoint...
The DeSantis Takeover Begins
Florida governor Ron DeSantis vowed to defund DEI initiatives on the same day his hand-picked trustees convened at New College of Florida and fired the president.
Florida Atlantic Provost Jokes About Bestiality
A faculty member raised a concern about targeting of LGBTQ faculty. The interim provost replied with a bestiality joke. The faculty member calls it a “teachable moment.”
Opinion
In Praise of Folly
We should help students in our literature classes to transcend the too-common notion that “the film was funny but the book was not,” writes Douglas King.
Community Colleges’ Positive, Pervasive Digital Leap
From rural New Hampshire to urban Miami, community college students, faculty and administrators are broadly enthusiastic about digital learning options, according to a new report.