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The Makings of a President?
Scott McLemee reviews Robert E. Denton Jr.’s scholarship on the American presidency, which highlights how immediately coping with the lack of any guidebook is one of the most urgent demands of the office.
Trying Again on Time Demands
At NCAA meeting, Division I and the Power Five conferences will take a second shot at legislation limiting time demands on athletes. Divisions II and III expect to adopt new rules giving “unchallengeable authority” to physicians on when athletes should play after concussions.
University of Mumbai Plans Campus in U.S.
The University of Mumbai is planning to create a campus in the United States, The Indian Express reported. Officials said...
Opioid Crisis
We’re in the middle of an opioid crisis. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of North Florida’s David Courtwright discusses...
Mental Health on the Syllabus
Northwestern U Faculty Senate passes resolution encouraging professors to put information about mental health services on their syllabi.
Dear Betsy
Policy experts, academics, advocates and college administrators ask questions they hope to see answered in today's confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, the Trump administration’s education secretary nominee.
Limits of Academic Freedom
University of Toronto supports an “anti-psychiatry” scholarship and the professor who championed it, but some fear impact of institutional endorsement of what they view as fake science.
The Body Issue
Study suggests digital models can help medical schools, which face a shortage of cadavers, teach students human anatomy.