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How Identity Shapes Science
New analysis finds that research by Black, Latinx and Asian scientists is often clustered in certain fields and underrepresented in terms of citation counts. This lack of diversity hurts everyone, the authors say.
Southwestern Offers Free Campus Space to Kumeyaay Nation
Southwestern College, a community college in California, will allow members of the Kumeyaay Nation, a group of local Indigenous tribes...
Elizabethtown President Quits After Less Than 3 Years
Elizabethtown College announced Monday that Cecilia M. McCormick resigned as president, effective on Dec. 31, 2021. McCormick had served as...
Syracuse Chancellor Has COVID-19
Kent Syverud, the chancellor of Syracuse University, announced Monday that he has tested positive for COVID-19, WSYR-TV reported. Syverud wrote...
Amazon Gift Signals Confidence in Community Colleges
The company is giving $3 million to kick-start a computer science bachelor’s degree program at community and technical colleges throughout Washington State.
UC Irvine Fires Scholar for Refusing Vaccine
The University of California, Irvine, has fired a scholar for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The scholar was Aaron...
Opinion
Trustees Cannot Punt on College Football
Top administrators are certainly instrumental, but ultimately, coaches’ compensation and other key financial decisions rest with a university’s board, writes Richard Chait.
Tenure Awarded… at Hofstra, Wabash
Hofstra University Kira Adaricheva, mathematics Emily Barkley-Levenson, psychology Joseph Bartolotta, writing studies and rhetoric Benjamin Burrington, physics and astronomy Russell...