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Debias Yourself to Debias Your Teaching
Anne Gordon explores how implicit bias plays out in the ways law school professors, as well as those in other disciplines, engage with students -- and what can be done to mitigate it.
Senators Reintroduce Bill to Track Student-Level Outcomes
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Thursday introduced into the new Congress the College Transparency Act, which would remove...
Science and Communication
There are many challenges in breaking down science for consumption. In today's Academic Minute, Laura Guertin of Pennsylvania State University...
Awareness of Open Educational Resources Grows, but Adoption Doesn't
As COVID-19 forced professors to embrace digital texts, they were likelier to know about -- but not to use -- free, openly licensed materials. Progress was greatest at colleges that promoted OER, especially minority-serving ones.
No More ‘Divisive Concepts’ in Iowa?
Trump's diversity training ban died at the federal level but is finding new life -- in Iowa.
Oregon State President on Probation
F. King Alexander will be on probation through June after a report detailed mishandling of sexual assault allegations at LSU, where he was president from 2013 to 2019.
Ethics and Diversity Course on Hold
Boise State halts a diversity course for 1,300 students midsemester over a rumored video of a student being “humiliated” for being white. The university hasn't seen the video, but the course was already under scrutiny from state lawmakers.
Liberty University Center Cuts Ties With Second Namesake
Liberty University’s Falkirk Center, which was established in 2019 and quickly became what The New York Times described as “the...