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Making Test-Optional Admissions Real
More than 400 colleges issue joint statement drafted by NACAC.
Academic Minute: COVID-19 and the Black Death
Today on the Academic Minute: Michael Vargas, professor of medieval history at SUNY New Paltz, compares COVID-19 to the period...
An Unusual Book Club
Not all book clubs are alike. In today's Academic Minute, part of Loyola University Maryland Week, Jean Lee Cole examines...
COVID-19 Roundup: UNC Won't Budge on Reopening
Chapel Hill rebuffs recommendations from county health officials to at least delay bringing students back to campus. Syracuse suspends students who didn't social distance. Hopkins and UMass pull back on the fall.
Housing Developer Pressured Universities on Fall Plans
Company that builds and maintains student housing sent letters to public universities in at least two states in May as they weighed in-person fall classes, reminding them of hundreds of millions of debt.
Whose Music Theory?
A 20-minute plenary talk boils over into music theory's biggest imbroglio in years. Allegations of anti-Black bias and anti-Semitism fly.
Trump Signals Aid for Student Loan Borrowers
In a tweet, the president said he might use his executive powers to provide relief.
A ‘Safety Strike’
Three days after returning to campus, employees at City Colleges of Chicago said the colleges are not following their planned COVID-19 spread-prevention protocols. Worried for their safety, the union is threatening to strike.