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MIT Press to Release Many Spring Titles Open Access
Under a new initiative from MIT Press, early purchasing commitments from a subset of libraries will make the spring 2022 slate of monographs and edited collections open access.
Opinion
Reckoning With the Chilling Effect of New State Laws
Why isn’t the American higher education community, Terri Taylor asks, talking more—indeed, doing more—about this broad assault on academic freedom?
Michigan State Announces $1.5K Pandemic Bonus for Faculty
Michigan State University is giving full- and part-time professors, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate assistants $1,500 bonuses in recognition of their...
Penn State Study on OPMs Offers Policy Recommendations
A new study from Pennsylvania State University education policy scholars assessing online program managers in higher education concludes that it...
State Funding Bump Would Have Modest Effect on Grad Rates
An increase to state higher education appropriations could have a modest impact on graduation rates, a new report from the Midwest Higher Education Compact showed.
Academic Minute: How Food Transforms Neighborhoods
Today on the Academic Minute: Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, professor of geography at San Diego State University, examines how great ethnic food...
WWE Gets In On NIL, Signing Deals With 16 College Athletes
World Wrestling Entertainment has entered the name, image and likeness arena, signing deals with 16 NCAA athletes from various sports...
How the Pandemic Shrank the Higher Ed Workforce
Colleges employed 4 percent fewer people in fall 2020 than they did pre-pandemic, U.S. data show. Community colleges, service workers and part-time employees suffered disproportionately.