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Parkinson’s Drug Improves, Then Diminishes, Quality of Life
Treating Parkinson’s disease is never an easy prospect. In today’s Academic Minute, Amal Alachkar of the University of California, Irvine...
Study: Parent PLUS Loans Increase Racial Debt Burdens
Black parents are disproportionately burdened by Parent PLUS borrowing, a new study finds, leading to deeper racial inequities in student loan borrowing and higher education at large.
New Presidents or Provosts: College of the Ozarks, Connecticut State CC, Gonzaga U, Spelman College, Stony Brook U, U of Portland, Wagner College
Angelo Araimo, interim president of Wagner College, in New York, has been named to the job on a permanent basis...
Gaps in Asian American, Pacific Islander Student Outcomes
A new report released Tuesday by the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California-based organization focused on closing equity gaps in...
‘African Studies Review’ Won’t Retract Autoethnography Essay
The editors of African Studies Review won’t retract a recent article by two white scholars promoting autoethnography, a research method...
Stanford Student’s Family Creates Suicide Prevention Program
The parents of Katie Meyer, a goalkeeper on the Stanford University women’s soccer team who died by suicide in March...
Opinion
We Need to Teach Students How to Implement
Faculty members commonly train students how to develop ideas but not how to make those ideas tangible, write Spencer Carlson, Liz Gerber and Matt Easterday.
PETA vs. UW’s Primate Center
A judge has prohibited the University of Washington from releasing the names of an animal research committee to PETA. The animal-rights organization is appealing, alleging mistreatment of primates.