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Tech and Other Topics for April 1 'News'
Many colleges make momentous announcements on April 1 (please note that date). Several of the April 1 announcements concerned technology...
Academic Minute: The Science of Learning
Today on the Academic Minute, Lauren Scharff, professor of psychology at the United States Air Force Academy, looks at how...
Memorial to Slaves Vandalized at UNC
A memorial to the slaves and other people of color who helped build the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
Gender Pay Gap
The wage gap is still wide open. In today's Academic Minute, the University of Baltimore's Michele Gilman examines the reasons...
NSF's Foray Into Defining Job Skills
The federal agency is conducting a two-phase experiment to design tools to better understand career trajectories of its employees and the rest of the federal work force.
New Push for Test Optional
More colleges are ending requirements that applicants submit SAT or ACT. It's not the admissions scandal, but about diversity concerns and may be a Chicago impact.
Promises Ignored?
Yale has pledged millions for faculty diversity, but 13 professors who teach in its ethnicity, race and migration studies program say they'll walk if they don't get the resources and autonomy they've been promised.
Where Do Colleges Recruit? Wealthy and White High Schools
Study finds public universities that recruit out of state focus on high schools that serve wealthy students.