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Seattle Pacific Trustees Sued Over Anti-LGBTQ+ Hiring Policy
A long-running battle between Seattle Pacific University’s leadership and other campus constituents over an anti-LGBTQ+ hiring policy has culminated in...
Chatfield College to Close, Become a Student Support Agency
Chatfield College, which operated for five decades as a two-year Roman Catholic college, is closing and becoming a nonprofit group...
Opposing Views on the Role of Calculus
High school counselors’ views differ from those of admissions officers, who are more flexible about the mathematics courses students take.
Tentative Deal Ends Faculty Strike at Eastern Michigan
A tentative agreement has ended a faculty strike at Eastern Michigan University. Eastern Michigan faculty went on strike a week...
Why Are People Antiscience and What Can We Do About It? Academic Minute
Changing a person’s attitude on a subject can be tricky. In today’s Academic Minute, Simon Fraser University’s Aviva Philipp-Muller explains...
‘Unraveling Faculty Burnout’
Author charts her way back from severe faculty burnout in new book. While the work includes individual coping strategies, it’s also a wake-up call to institutions to stop perpetuating a culture of overwork.
Who’ll Pay for Public Access to Federally Funded Research?
The White House painted an incomplete economic picture of its new policy for free, immediate access to research produced with federal grants. Will publishers adapt their business models to comply, or will scholars be on the hook?
‘U.S. News’ Changes Policy on Testing
Magazine announces that it won’t punish colleges where few students submit scores; Columbia admits to providing incorrect information for past rankings.