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Rethinking Carbon Neutrality in Higher Education
Colleges can’t view it as the end goal to responding effectively to the climate crisis, argue Alex Barron, Aaron Strong and Lucy Metz, who offer five other recommendations for action.
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A Pedagogy of Trust in the Classroom
Should we professors set aside at times the well-meaning how-to-think ethos, asks Scott Parker, in favor of forcefully articulating which ideas are permissible or not?
Penn State Denounces Appearance by Antigay Provocateur
Penn State administrators have denounced the forthcoming appearance of right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, who has been invited by a student...
New Presidents or Provosts: Concorde Career College-Portland, Illinois State U, Imperial College London, Saint Joseph's College of Marian U, Voorhees College, William Woods U
Hugh Brady, vice chancellor and president of the University of Bristol, in Britain, has been appointed president of Imperial College...
Another Round of No-Poaching Settlement Checks
Some nonmedical faculty members at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are now receiving settlement...
New University May Open in Seattle Area
Plans are in the works to open a new university in the Seattle metro area in fall 2023 focused on...
Tighter Regulations for For-Profits?
The Department of Education begins the process of writing new regulations limiting what for-profit institutions can count as nonfederal sources of revenue with two public hearings this week.
Academic Minute: Cambodia’s Heroic Rats
Today on the Academic Minute: Darcia DeAngelo, assistant professor of sociocultural anthropology at the University of Oklahoma, determines how these...