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Senate at Lincoln U of Missouri Criticizes Provost
The Faculty Senate at Lincoln University in Missouri voted 88 to 18 Thursday that it lacks confidence in Provost Said...
What You Read Influences How You Write
You write what you read. In today's Academic Minute, the University of Florida's Yellowlees Douglas examines if reading more polished...
Ugly Response to Black Lives Matter
At a protest at East Tennessee State University, a white student shows up in a gorilla mask and taunts black students by dangling bananas at them.
Low Returns, High Pressure
Endowment spending remains under scrutiny, even as low returns roll in this year for colleges with large investment holdings.
Opinion
The Success of Evidence-Based Policies
A new report from the Council of Economic Advisers details how the Obama administration's higher ed policies over the last seven years have begun to pay off, write Sandra Black and Jason Furman.
Making Black Life Matter in Academe
Colleges and universities must do more than just bring in a speaker from the movement, only momentarily suspending the whiteness that pervades the everyday life and operations of the campus, argues Eric Anthony Grollman.
'Keep the Damned Women Out'
Author discusses new book on the history of elite universities becoming coeducational -- with the push coming from male leaders for reasons having little to do with equity.
Opinion
Accountability for Grad School Professors
A major criticism from students who have dropped out of graduate school is the lack of support they received from their professors, write Melissa A. Brevetti and Dana Ford.