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Pressure Building for Vaccine Mandates
As the Delta variant spreads, faculty and students re-up their advocacy for campus vaccine requirements.
Two-Thirds of 4-Year Colleges Will Not Require Tests for Admissions
Impact of the pandemic continues into the 2021-22 academic year.
Opinion
Going Through Her Daughter's Admissions Process
Rebecca Vidra is a professor, and she is surprised time and again.
Studying Lung and Gut Microbiomes
The human microbiome is important for our health. In today's Academic Minute, part of Worcester State University Week, Maura Pavao...
Ep. 49: The Future of the Physical Campus
The COVID-19 pandemic forced almost every college or university to make do without a physical campus at some point in...
Listening to Outer Space
What are people saying about space? In today's Academic Minute, SUNY Polytechnic Institute's Robert Edgell listens in to the discussion...
Student Performance in Remote Learning, Explored (Imperfectly)
Study finds that students in online courses fail to complete them and get lower grades than peers learning in person. Several experts question the paper’s design and findings, especially related to the pandemic.
Facebook Disables NYU Research Accounts
Facebook claims the researchers’ data collection methods violate its terms of service. The recent action highlights the increasingly fraught relationship between colleges and universities and the big tech companies they research.