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Students Retention

Enrollments Rise After Pandemic-Related Declines

Undergraduate enrollment is up again, according to new data. Community colleges focused on vocational training in particular made major gains last fall.

Quick Takes

Arizona State, Northwestern, Yale Face Investigation for Alleged Bias

The U.S. Education Department has added four more colleges and universities to its list of institutions under investigation for possible...
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Governance Executive Leadership

Virginia Commonwealth’s News Release Battle—With Itself

The university’s public affairs school published poll results criticizing university leaders, who then insulted the poll’s methodology. The school fired back.

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Students Financial Aid

More Settlements in Financial Aid Antitrust Lawsuit

The latest agreements mean eight of 17 universities sued for colluding over financial aid have settled. The known settlement amounts add up to more than $151 million.

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Opinion
Views

Plucking Plagiarism’s Low-Hanging Fruit

Tricia Bertram Gallant argues that graduate programs and journals should routinely check dissertations and articles for plagiarism.

Quick Takes

Supreme Court Declines to Hear North Carolina State Professor’s Case

The Supreme Court declined to hear the case of a North Carolina State University professor who alleged the university retaliated...
Quick Takes

Building a Better Book: Academic Minute

Today on the Academic Minute, part of Northern Kentucky University Week: Tamara O’Callaghan, professor in the department of English, uses...
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Workplace

Higher Ed Workforce Rebounding From Pandemic

Colleges employed 3.9 million people in 2022, up 1.75 percent from 2020 but still down from more than four million in 2019. Community college employee rolls have continued to shrink.