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Reducing ‘Period Poverty’ at California’s Public Institutions
A new law requires California state universities and community colleges to provide students with free menstrual products. But some campus groups have been supplying them for years.
Washington State Fires Football Coach for Refusing Vaccine
Washington State University fired its head football coach Monday for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, The Seattle Times reported...
Senate Appropriators Give Slightly Less to Higher Ed Than House
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday released a draft of its funding bill for federal higher education programs that mirrors...
Study Models Surveillance Testing on Fully Vaccinated Campus
A new mathematical modeling study finds that surveillance testing on college campuses with a 100 percent vaccinated population may still...
Academic Minute: Trauma-Induced Depression
Today on the Academic Minute, part of University of California, Irvine, Week: Amal Alachkar, associate professor of teaching and pharmaceutical...
Barbra Streisand to Fund New Research Institute at UCLA
Barbra Streisand will establish an eponymous institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, to address some of her key...
Kenyon Student Workers File Petition for Union Election
Undergraduate students who hold jobs -- any jobs -- at Kenyon College have filed a petition with the National Labor...
Opinion
The Hidden Costs of Open Educational Resources
While certainly not opposed to saving students money, Stuart Barbier questions the assumption that free or low-cost textbooks are a better choice for students simply for that reason.