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Academic Minute: Knitting as Protest
Today on the Academic Minute, part of "Best of" Week, Jennifer LeMesurier, professor of writing and rhetoric at Colgate University...
University College London to Close Qatar Campus
University College London will close its campus in Qatar in 2020, when its contract with the Qatar Foundation ends. A...
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...
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.