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State Funding Bump Would Have Modest Effect on Grad Rates
An increase to state higher education appropriations could have a modest impact on graduation rates, a new report from the Midwest Higher Education Compact showed.
Academic Minute: How Food Transforms Neighborhoods
Today on the Academic Minute: Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, professor of geography at San Diego State University, examines how great ethnic food...
WWE Gets In On NIL, Signing Deals With 16 College Athletes
World Wrestling Entertainment has entered the name, image and likeness arena, signing deals with 16 NCAA athletes from various sports...
Opinion
Reckoning With the Chilling Effect of New State Laws
Why isn’t the American higher education community, Terri Taylor asks, talking more—indeed, doing more—about this broad assault on academic freedom?
How the Pandemic Shrank the Higher Ed Workforce
Colleges employed 4 percent fewer people in fall 2020 than they did pre-pandemic, U.S. data show. Community colleges, service workers and part-time employees suffered disproportionately.
MIT Press to Release Many Spring Titles Open Access
Under a new initiative from MIT Press, early purchasing commitments from a subset of libraries will make the spring 2022 slate of monographs and edited collections open access.
Penn Students Seek Online Finals
Students at the University of Pennsylvania are petitioning to have final exams switched to online because COVID-19. More than 500...
Students’ Perceptions of the Benefits of Homework
Homework has never been popular with most students. In today's Academic Minute, Rutgers University's Arnold Glass examines whether students benefit...