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United Arab Emirates Gives $50 Million to Hopkins
Johns Hopkins University on Thursday announced a $50 million gift from the United Arab Emirates. The funds will finance a...
Alexander White Paper Lays Out Framework for Higher Ed Accountability
Senator Lamar Alexander, the Tennessee Republican who chairs the Senate education committee, released a white paper Thursday suggesting that current...
3 Million Americans Live in Higher Education Deserts
Roughly three million Americans live more than 25 miles from a broad-access public college and do not have the sort...
Penn Revokes Honors for Wynn, Cosby
The University of Pennsylvania on Thursday announced that it is revoking honors it gave in the past to Stephen Wynn...
High Share of Tulane Women Sexually Assaulted
Tulane University on Wednesday released a report that found that 41 percent of undergraduate women reported being sexually assaulted since...
Every Movement Counts
Our physical activity guidelines are getting a rewrite. In today's Academic Minute, the University at Buffalo's Michael LaMonte discusses these...
A Year of Travel Bans
Visa data suggest decreases in the number of individuals from countries affected by the travel ban coming to the U.S. as students or for short-term business travel, a category that includes travel related to academic conferences.
A Family Affair
A chancellor secured positions for his daughter and son-in-law, even amid tight budgets at his university.