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On the Syllabus: Lana, Taylor, Tyler Perry
Professors are teaching their Gen Z students literary analysis and critical thinking through courses on celebrities like Harry Styles and Taylor Swift. The music’s good, too.
New Presidents or Provosts: National U, Northeast College of Health Sciences, Northern Michigan U, State U System of Florida, U of Cambridge, U of Connecticut
Anne E. Killen, vice president of academic affairs at Northeast College of Health Sciences, in New York, has been promoted...
Opinion
COVID Conferences: Vulnerable Scholars Needn’t Apply
In scrapping remote options for conferences, academia has set out on a dangerous trajectory, Shira Lurie and Nicole Schroeder write.
3 Share Nobel in Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in chemistry will be shared by three scholars “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”...
How Heavy Metal Scenes Survive and Thrive
We’ve learned the power of groups after spending time alone during the pandemic. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of...
Blurred Lines
Patty Limerick speaks out on her abrupt firing from the Center of the American West, which she co-founded in 1986. CU Boulder found she mixed the personal and professional; she says what was once her strength suddenly became a liability.
‘Different Meanings’ or an ‘Attack on Students’?
Trustees at Lakeland Community College plan to review diversity, equity and inclusion language in the institution’s plans and policies. Faculty members are speaking out against the decision.
3 Share Nobel in Physics
Three scholars have been named winners of the Nobel Prize in physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation...