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More Indictments in Admissions Scandal
On Monday federal prosecutors announced that 14 people -- one coach and 13 parents -- had agreed to plead guilty...
Academic Minute: Incels
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Grinnell College Week, Ross Haenfler, associate professor of sociology, looks at the fringe...
Press ‘Reset’ for More Students?
An economist and former college president who studied tuition resets finds they may result in larger freshman classes and more transfer students if institutions take care and work slowly and deliberately.
Brown Reviews Fairness in Admissions, Student Life
Brown University president Christina Paxson released a letter Tuesday announcing a review of policies on "fairness" in admissions and in...
Students, Finance and Completion
This webcast explores some of the ways that financial issues hinder student progress and some of the strategies colleges and...
The Geographical Life of West African Villages
What constitutes a village in rural Africa? In today's Academic Minute, part of Grinnell College Week, Leif Brottem explains why...
‘The Time for Engagement’
Henry Reichman discusses his new book on the future of academic freedom, in which he argues that that future "is up to us."
Partial, and Uneven, Recovery From Recession
An early look at state and local higher education funding finds that recovery since the recession has been uneven, with just nine states in 2018 back to pre-recession funding levels -- meanwhile, another 11 have seen no recovery at all.