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'Plan U' for Mandatory Sharing of Pub Preprints
An essay in PLOS Biology argues that funding agencies should require grantees to post their papers on preprint servers such...
New Programs: Hispanic Studies, Strategic Communication, Sports Studies, Analytics, Translation
Graceland University is starting a bachelor's program in Hispanic studies. Marquette University is starting an online bachelor of arts in...
Utah Honors Staffers Despite Evidence of Botched Murder Case
The University of Utah police department honored a dispatcher and two administrators for their handling of the aftermath of a...
Report: Free College Programs Have Grown Rapidly
A report released Tuesday by the Century Foundation found that since the introduction of Tennessee's tuition-free scholarship program five years...
Opinion
Sunspots and Poetry
Scott McLemee reviews Tracy Daugherty's Dante and the Early Astronomer: Science, Adventure and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens.
Academic Minute: Empathy in Online Health Communities
Today on the Academic Minute, part of University at Albany Week, InduShobha Chengalur-Smith, associate professor of information systems and business...
‘The Educated Underclass’
Author discusses new book in which he questions whether most colleges are living up to their claims about promoting social mobility -- and whether college degrees do enough for low-income students.
$180M Gates Grant to Emory for Work on Child Health
Emory University on Thursday announced a $180 million grant -- the university's largest ever -- to support its Child Health...