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Mapping the Classroom as Community
Professors can learn a lot by seeing how students are interacting. In today's Academic Minute, part of Penn State University...
Community Colleges Turn to New Incentives for Recruitment
Desperate to slow the steep decline of entering students, community colleges are getting creative and offering scholarships, complimentary laptops and free summer courses to high school graduates who enroll.
Faculty Salaries Dip This Year
Professor pay declined this year for the first time since it recovered -- somewhat -- from the Great Recession. Salary data don't include professors who were laid off.
Colleges Seek to Intervene in Title IX Religious Exemption Suit
Three Christian higher education institutions are petitioning a federal district court to allow them to intervene as defendants in a...
Penn Museum to Repatriate Remains of Black Philadelphians
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology announced Monday that it would repatriate the remains of Black Philadelphians...
Pacific Lutheran to Cut 36 Faculty Members, Several Majors
Pacific Lutheran University will cut 36 faculty positions and a handful of majors and minors to shore up its budget...
New Effort Shares COVID-Fighting Practices
CDC funds new American College Health Association-led initiative to share COVID mitigation strategies across colleges.
Is Diversity Moral? Educational?
Study finds that most college diversity policies are based on educational benefits, consistent with the Supreme Court. This approach appeals to white people, but it doesn't win over Black people. And there may be consequences.