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Warren, Other Democrats Take Aim at Accreditors
U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren, Dick Durbin and Brian Schatz on Thursday introduced legislation that would increase accountability for accreditors and...
Ky. Governor Overstepped in Cutting Higher Ed Budgets
Governor Matt Bevin of Kentucky exceeded his authority in unilaterally cutting the budgets of the state's community colleges and universities...
Education Department Plans to Nix Accreditor
The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday backed a federal panel's recommendation to terminate recognition of the Accrediting Council for...
Academic Minute: Primes and Particles
Today on the Academic Minute, Martin Krieger, professor of planning at the University of Southern California, explains that as we...
More Aid for the Needy
New federal data show rising number of students receiving Pell Grants while median family incomes of recipients fall.
Redoing Application Reading
Admissions officers talk about changing the way applications are read in order to keep up with demographic changes.
Mixed-Aged Children in Preschool
Learning with younger classmates may not be helping some preschool children. In today's Academic Minute, Ohio State University's Kelly Purtell...
Clearing the Shrapnel
Gender-based discrimination in the academic workplace isn’t always overt, but the “shrapnel” of small indignities stays with you. That’s the premise of a new book on this kind of bias, and how to alleviate it.