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Svante Pääbo Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine
Svante Pääbo won the Nobel Prize in medicine for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution...
Music’s Power for People With Dementia
Helping those in eldercare environments have good quality of life is important. In today’s Academic Minute, Pennsylvania State University’s Daniel...
Admissions to the Major
Some colleges, mostly large publics, admit by major. Is this system actually better for students? It depends who they are and what they study.
‘Deaning While Stuttering’
Pepperdine law school dean is now speaking openly about his lifelong stutter.
Battered Florida Colleges Regroup in Ian’s Wake
After the historic hurricane, institutions in the Sunshine State take stock of the damage on campuses while students deal with record flooding and power outages.
Fired Georgetown College President Files Lawsuit
Fired last year amid allegations that he sexually assaulted an employee on a work trip, former Georgetown College president William...
Ed Department: Debt Relief to Cost $300 Billion
The Biden administration’s student debt-relief plan will cost about $30 billion a year over the next 10 years, according to...
Opinion
Why I’d Gladly Exchange My Tenure for a Union
Juliet Shields hopes the dismantling of tenure seen at Emporia State and elsewhere might give way to a better system for protecting faculty rights—unionization.