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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.
‘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.
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.
Patterns of Student Protest
College leaders often aren't the top hindrance to campus protests that have proliferated in recent years -- holiday breaks, finals week and graduation tend to be the biggest challenge for student activists.
New Presidents or Provosts: Bladen CC, Brunswick CC, Carnegie Mellon U, College of Charleston, Crafton Hills College, Eastern Nazarene College, Smith College, South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, U of Pretoria, Western U
Reverend Jack Connell, provost and dean of the faculty at Houghton College, in New York, has been selected as president...
Potential Breakthrough Against Racist Trolling
Advocates hope a new legal settlement between a former neo-Nazi and a black college student may help other students who find themselves facing digital hate.
Academic Minute: Quantum Supremacy
Today on the Academic Minute, as "Best of" Week continues, Sebastian Deffner, an assistant professor of physics at the University...
2 New Hampshire Colleges Will Merge in 2 Steps
A merger between two institutions in New Hampshire will follow a two-step process that will begin with New England College...