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Report: Test Scores Helpful for Remedial Course Placement
A new report from ACT, the company that owns and administers its namesake standardized exam, found that its test scores...
Lawmakers Sought to Mandate Class on Founding Documents. What Were Professors to Do?
Conservative groups are pushing civics requirements in higher education, not just K-12. In North Carolina, undergraduates now must study the founding documents. Will other states follow?
Parents’ Lack of Worry About COVID’s Effects on Kids: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Morgan Polikoff, professor of education at the University of Southern California, examines why parents don't...
UNC System Board Votes to Eliminate DEI Offices
The University of North Carolina System Board of Governors voted on Thursday morning to eliminate a policy requiring diversity, equity...
American Sociological Assoc. Members Call for Gaza Ceasefire
Members of the American Sociological Association (ASA) have passed a resolution calling “for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza”...
Can I Just Make Room for Interesting Things?
In the liberal arts, we don’t have an employability problem; we have a messaging problem, Kristin Brennan and Stephen Perkinson write.
Who Are the Campus Leaders Headed to Capitol Hill?
Unlike their predecessors in the hot seat, the leaders set to face Congress today are all men who have been in the job for at least two years—and two head public institutions.
From Transfer Student to Transfer Administrator
One woman describes her journey.