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What College Students Need Most
To many people, vocational education has often meant learning a trade, but a more profound and important meaning of the term has been coming back into use, writes David S. Cunningham.
Go Greek and See Grades Drop?
A study presented at the American Economic Association suggests that students' GPAs fall after becoming Greek affiliated and that joining a fraternity or sorority doesn't necessarily guarantee a higher salary.
Senate Democrats Address Debt of Students of Color
U.S. senators Doug Jones, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Catherine Cortez-Masto sent nearly 100 letters to education policy experts, business...
Whisper Network 2.0
Research panels, professional awards, job interviews, networking and "the list"? Female historians circulate a secret document of alleged bad actors during their major annual conference.
Knitting as Protest
In today's Academic Minute, the Best Political Science Segment Award as part of "Best of" Week, Colgate University's Jennifer LeMesurier...
For Sale: Renowned Sports League?
A proposal to sell off part of the Pacific-12 Conference to private investors raises eyebrows among some athletics experts.
Grading Smarter, Not Harder
Historians discuss efforts to evaluate student learning far beyond a grade.
Getting Students to Study Literature
Number of English majors is dropping and many language programs fight for survival. But at the MLA, professors share strategies that are boosting enrollments and in some cases forcing them to change what they teach.