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Family Separations
The immigration debate goes beyond the headlines. In today's Academic Minute, part of Timely Topics Week, the University of Maryland-Baltimore...
Letting the Donor Decide
Record $50 million gift to Saint Louis University gave donors the right to help pick head of research institute and give that person a faculty title. Professors see dangerous erosion of academic values.
Keeping Cornell Multilingual
Arts and sciences faculty sticks with a three-course-sequence foreign language requirement, even as other institutions shrink their language requirements.
Scholars at Yale, NYU Share Economics Nobel
Two professors were this morning named winners of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for their work "Integrating innovation...
Cengage Settles Author Lawsuit
Publisher Cengage has reached a settlement with two authors who objected to their work being included in the publisher’s Unlimited...
Performance Funding and Certificate and Degree Production
State performance-funding policies that link a relatively high percentage of base funding for community colleges to student outcomes on average...
American Jewish U Halts Undergrad Programs
American Jewish University, in Los Angeles, has announced that it is ending undergraduate admissions and "sunsetting" its undergraduate curriculum, which...
Giving Rural Students 'the Short Box'
Colleges often go about recruiting rural students in the wrong way, admissions experts say. But they can commit to better practices if they recognize "rurality is different everywhere."