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St. Thomas Confirms Faculty Layoffs
The University of St. Thomas in Texas won’t renew contracts for 30 professors next year, as part of a restructuring...
Alaska Regents Reject Plan for 'One University' Accreditation
The University of Alaska system's governing board has voted down a plan that would have consolidated the accreditation of the...
Academic Diversity Officers
University of Michigan shares insights from its decentralized diversity accountability structure, in which individual academic and administrative units have their own diversity officers.
New Programs: Teaching, Computer Science, Engineering
Millikin University is starting a master of arts in teaching. New York Institute of Technology is starting a Ph.D. in...
Opinion
Plagiarize This!
Why is brazenly putting one's name on a text that someone else wrote repugnant? Should it be? Scott McLemee explores the issue.
Senate Passes HBCU Funding, FAFSA Changes
The bipartisan deal announced Tuesday to amend legislation tied to funding historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions...
$100 Million for Yale for Public School Leadership
Yale University announced a $100 million gift to its business school Thursday from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. The...
Problem Drinking Varies by Race
White students are more likely than students of other racial groups to drink alcohol to fit in or because of...