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Former Instructor Deemed Incompetent for Trial in Colleague's Murder
A Missouri judge ruled Thursday that Edward Gutting, a former instructor of modern and classical languages at Missouri State University...
U of Florida Sued Over Professor's Departure Terms
Kelly Jordan, former associate chair of the University of Florida’s nuclear engineering reactor, is suing the institution for breaching a...
Public Affairs Schools Launch Diversity Alliance
Six public affairs schools will launch a Public Affairs Diversity Alliance, they announced Thursday. Their goal is to “encourage and...
Quantum Supremacy
In today's Academic Minute, the Best Science Segment Award as part of "Best of" Week, the University of Maryland Baltimore...
The Dismal (and Too Elitist?) Science
Economists and discipline's main association face criticism that the field's power centers are a small number of top departments. Grad students, meanwhile, push for standards of conduct.
‘Why They Can’t Write’
Author discusses his new book about “killing the five-paragraph essay” and other ways schools and colleges could do a better job of teaching writing.
Skipping Free College and Federal Loans
Some California community colleges are turning down state money for free tuition to avoid participating in the federal loan program.
Could Lotteries Be Better Than Grant Applications?
Two scientists have used economic theory to suggest that the current system of awarding federal research grants is fundamentally broken...