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Making a Modern President
Fewer provosts are becoming presidents and more deans are jumping straight to the presidency, according to new report that also includes an intriguing list of universities that are presidential talent factories.
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The Other Leonardo
In Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World, Keith Devlin helps rescue a mathematician from 13th-century Italy from near total oblivion, writes Scott McLemee.
Number of Hispanic-Serving Colleges Grows
As the number of Latinos who attend college grows, growing as well is the number of colleges that meet the...
New President for Embattled Baylor
Amid scrutiny and lawsuits concerning how it investigated campus sexual assaults and treated victims, Baylor University has named its first...
Full-Time Finishers
A growing body of research shows that full-time college students are more likely to graduate, yet experts caution against policies that neglect part-time students.
Hatch: Endowments Will Be Part of Tax Review
Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, the Republican chairman of the Senate Finance committee, said this week that university endowments would be...
Trump Directs Review of H-1B Visas
President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that directs federal agencies to recommend changes to the H-1B skilled-worker visa program...
Academic Minute: Defunding the National Endowment for the Arts
Today, as part of the Academic Minute's Current Affairs Week, Aaron Knochel, assistant professor of art education at Pennsylvania State...