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Beneath the Student Loan Crisis, There’s an ROI Crisis
The reality is college doesn’t pay off for many graduates—and until we’re more transparent about that, the student loan crisis will be a recurrent one, Chris Keaveney writes.
English Professors Study More Than Books: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Amy J. Lueck, associate professor of rhetoric and composition at Santa Clara University, explains that...
Study Examines How Colleges Borrow During Times of Crisis
How colleges use debt during times of crisis varies greatly depending on institutional characteristics, according to a new report from...
Ohio Supreme Court Won't Hear Oberlin Appeal
The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a lower court’s ruling that Oberlin College must pay $36 million...
Collaborative Exploration in the Arts
Positive student outcomes can be achieved in many different ways. In today’s Academic Minute, Shenandoah University’s Ryan D. Romine examines...
History Hiring in the Pandemic
New report from the American Historical Association shows that job ads, a proxy for faculty hiring, declined dramatically in 2020–21 but have started to rebound. The long-term outlook remains sobering.
Outsourcing Reproductive Health
After partnering with a Roman Catholic health-care system that said it wouldn’t provide students with birth control for contraception, Oberlin College abruptly changed course.
New Presidents or Provosts: Frontier College, Palm Beach State College–Lake Worth, U of Montevallo, Woodbury U
Barbara Cipriano, associate dean of public safety at Palm Beach State College, in Florida, has been named provost of the...