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Outreach to Ex-Students of Closed For-Profit
The Department of Education this week launched efforts to reach the roughly 20,000 students affected by the sudden closure of...
Opinion
Manson Family Values
Scott McLemee reviews Jeffrey Melnick's Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family.
Academic Minute: Cellular Senescence
Today on the Academic Minute, Ekin Atilla-Gokcumen, assistant professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo, explores senescence and one...
Farm Bill Includes Wins for Colleges
The $867 billion farm bill passed by Congress this week includes important wins for land-grant institutions, especially historically black colleges...
DeVos to Cancel $150 Million in Student Loan Debt
The Education Department said Thursday that it would carry out part of the Obama administration's 2016 borrower-defense rule, automatically canceling...
Professor Intervenes to Save Student from ISIS
A chemistry professor at Sweden’s Lund University intervened to rescue a doctoral student from an Islamic State warzone, The Local...
Hagfish
Dealing with predators is a fact of life for most species. In today's Academic Minute, Chapman University's Douglas Fudge delves...
Heavyweight Showdown Over Research Access
University of California System is playing hardball with Elsevier in negotiations that could transform the way it pays to read and publish research. But does the UC system have the clout to pull it off?