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Full-time Faculty Raises Finally Beat Inflation … Just Barely

With the dollar’s declining value taken into account, new data shows that real wages grew by half a percent. But pay remains well below pre-pandemic levels, and full-time women and part-timers continue to receive less than others.

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Degrees Earned Fall Again, Certificates Rise

Fewer people are earning degrees for the second year in a row, but certificates are having a moment, according to a new report.

Analysis Finds Colleges Fumbled Oct. 7 Statements

New analysis on university statements following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and the retaliatory war that has since killed...

How Can You Become a Good Thinker? Academic Minute

Today on the Academic Minute: Eranda Jayawickreme, Harold W. Tribble professor of psychology at Wake Forest University, explores some techniques...
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FAFSA Fallout on Capitol Hill

A House committee held its first hearing Wednesday on the disastrous launch of the new FAFSA. 

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Virtual Coffee, Ice Cream Shops Help Students Learn Business

Business schools are moving beyond case studies or site visits and utilizing virtual reality in classrooms to help students master supply chain management.

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Opinion

Why I’m a Convert to Diversity Statements

Diversity statements proved surprisingly helpful to our red-state university search committee, Suzanne Penuel writes.

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Goddard College Announces Closure

The small, progressive Vermont college will close at the end of the spring semester. It’s another blow to a state that has lost a number of higher ed institutions in recent years.