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National College Completion Rate Rises Again
The national college completion rate increased 2.1 percentage points compared to last year, according to new data from the National...
An Administrator Says #MeToo
Kern Holoman, of the University of California, Davis, was stripped of his emeritus professor status this week after allegations of sexual assault from 1987 surfaced. He has denied the claims, which were made by a former student who now works at the university.
Academic Freedom Goes to Court
The repression of academics in Turkey is worsening, writes Scott McLemee, who describes the growing international protest on behalf of such scholars and how one might join it.
Academic Minute: Leadership Resisting Creativity
Today on the Academic Minute, Jennifer Mueller, associate professor of management at the University of San Diego, explains why many...
British University Sorry for Tweet Many Call Racist
University College London is apologizing for a tweet that it says was a reference to the possibility of snow on...
Murder-Suicide at Penn State's Beaver Campus
A food services employee at Pennsylvania State University's Beaver campus was shot and murdered there Wednesday by a man who...
Older Adults, Exercise and Arthritis
Is merely being active enough, or is there a right way to stay in motion? In today's Academic Minute, Northwestern...
‘Too Much, Too Fast’?
GOP’s Higher Education Act rewrite would give a boost to competency-based education, short-term certificates and alternative providers, but experts worry about the bill’s lack of safeguards.