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Academic Minute: TV Ads and Political Campaigns
In today’s Academic Minute, Dean Goldberg of Mount Saint Mary College reveals how political campaigns came to rely so heavily...
Parents, Peers and Preventing Excessive Drinking
Parents can have an impact on the drinking habits of freshmen who are otherwise at high risk of abusing alcohol...
Social Justice Revival
As liberal arts colleges reconnect with their activist roots, new programs take hold.
Diane Ravitch Takes On Obama's Higher Ed Plan
An education analyst and former assistant Education Secretary who became famous for an about-face on No Child Left Behind warned...
University Applications Drop in Britain
Applications to British universities fell by 8.7 percent this year, with applications from England down 10 percent, Times Higher Education...
Alabama and Artist Locked in Gridiron-Fueled Feud
Six years after the University of Alabama sued a local artist over his use of images of the storied Crimson...
Many at USC Object to Latest James Franco Project
"Undergrads," a new online video project by James Franco, is not going over well at the University of Southern California...
Chemistry of Artificial Sweeteners
In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Connecticut's Nicholas Leadbeater examines why artificial sweeteners can be thousands of time sweeter...