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Masks and Fake Lynching at Football Game
Two fans in the football stands at the University of Wisconsin at Madison on Saturday wore costumes and a noose...
Academic Minute: Vampires and Tuberculosis
Today on the Academic Minute, Charles Sohaskey, a postdoctoral research faculty member at Chapman University, explores if TB could play...
Wikileaks, Bill Clinton and For-Profits
A former adviser to Bill Clinton co-founded a corporate consulting firm that did communications work for Education Management Corporation, a...
Opinion
How Involved Are College Students in the Election?
As the election approaches, colleges and universities cannot endorse one candidate over another, but they can certainly offer learning experiences, writes Nancy Thomas.
Anger Over Blackface Photo at U Central Arkansas
A photo (at right) of a student at the University of Central Arkansas, posing in blackface and what commenters are...
Bipartisan Solution
The Education Department said Friday it would restore Pell Grant eligibility for students whose education was interrupted by the closure of their institutions.
'Cognitive Scaffolding' for Graduate Students
Faculty members play a critical role in how ethnic and racial minorities and women interpret the rigors of graduate school...
Frustrations of Early Career Scientists
Current research funding trends discourage innovative thinking, according to a new essay in a special issue of Nature. The essay...