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Growing Like a Weed
Higher ed institutions are increasingly launching courses and programs to train students for the cannabis industry and to demystify the science around the drug as more states legalize marijuana.
Data Collection Comforts: Most Students Trust Their Colleges
Students don’t know a lot about what their colleges are doing with their data, and experts say institutions must help them think more critically about data privacy. Here’s how.
Judge Orders Mills to Provide Financial Documents, Extends Restraining Order
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Stephen Pulido on Monday ordered Mills College in Oakland, Calif., to provide hundreds of financial...
Opinion
Helping Faculty Manage Reopening Risks
Given their responsibility for scholarly activities, it’s natural for some faculty to try to develop their own safety measures for classes and labs, but they should fight that impulse, writes Mike Poterala.
Collin Nursing Dean Dies of COVID-19 Complications
Jane Leach, the dean of nursing at Collin College, died from complications from COVID-19, KERA News reported. A college statement...
Ep. 53: College Students’ Expectations for the Fall
Students have offered mixed assessments of their learning experiences during the pandemic year. Many of them have complained about the...
Meditation and Mind Control
What if you could control something by just thinking? In today's Academic Minute, part of Carnegie Mellon University Week, Bin...
Delta Variant Raises Questions as Campuses Start Semester
Florida universities are ordered to open in person; Stanislaus State will go online for six weeks; a few Texas institutions will start online; required vaccines in Philadelphia, no confidence vote at Penn State; clusters at Duke; and colleges scramble to get students vaccinated.