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Asian Backing for Harvard on Affirmative Action
Monday was the day that various groups filed briefs in the lawsuit charging that Harvard University discriminates against Asian-American applicants...
Education Dept.'s Deregulation Push Gets Mixed Reviews
Trump administration's proposal to overhaul rules for college accreditors is panned by consumer advocates. But online course providers and some who study higher ed say re-examination of accreditors is long overdue.
Minimal Writing? No Problem
Nearly a third of college students haven't completed a major writing assignment in college, but that's OK with them.
Opinion
Guaranteeing Grades Before Exams?
It can encourage students to take risks and give them an opportunity to tap into their creative potential, writes Rangapriya Kannan-Narasimhan.
Temple Rankings Scandal: From Bad to Worse
University admits it provided false data for six additional programs beyond the online M.B.A. for which it already made such an admission.
Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy
Have human rights helped shape U.S. foreign policy in the past? In today's Academic Minute, part of American University Week...
DeVos to Announce New Push for Deregulation, Innovation
Top Education Department official describes plan to "rethink" higher-education standards through new rule-making process, to be announced today, on accreditation, the credit hour standard, the faculty role online and more.
Harvard Answers Back on Affirmative Action
New briefs from university provide an inside look at terms like "standard strong" and examples of Asian applicants whose ethnicity was viewed favorably and dispute statistical analysis provided by those claiming anti-Asian bias.