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A Ph.D., 50 Years After Being Sexually Harassed
The University of Chicago helped Marylin Webb finish her Ph.D. in educational psychology some 50 years after she left her...
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Ethical College Admissions: Is It Time to End Admissions Preferences for Athletes?
All the chatter about the decision of the University of Michigan's basketball coach to move to the NBA has Jim Jump thinking about more important issues.
National Spelling Bee Goes Pay-to-Play
The Scripps National Spelling Bee was until last year a contest that could only be entered by winning regional contests...
World War I Poetry
We’ve seen and heard a lot of stories from WWII – but what about WWI? In today's Academic Minute, the...
Academic Minute: World War I Poetry
Today on the Academic Minute: Lorie Vanchena, associate professor in the department of Germanic languages and literatures at the University...
Perceptions of the Vikings
Are we romanticizing the Vikings too much in popular culture? In today's Academic Minute, Gettysburg College's Christopher Fee looks into...
A Donor's Demands, a Revoked Chair
A religion professor at the American University in Cairo says the university had no right to revoke his chair title after he resisted a donor's demands that he teach Islam in a preferential manner.
Booted for Winning Too Many Games
University of St. Thomas's separation from its conference -- for too much success -- has reinforced the disparities in wealth and size among Division III institutions.