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Trustee Group Issues Statement on Campus Climate
The board of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges issued a statement on the responsibility of trustees...
Outrage in China on Firing of Instructor With Cancer
Facing growing public outrage over its firing of an instructor for absenteeism when her absences were due to cancer treatment...
8 Texas Woman's Athletes Hospitalized With Rare Condition
Eight athletes at Texas Woman's University were hospitalized this weekend and one has since been released with symptoms related to...
BREAKING: American U Afghanistan Attacked
The American University of Afghanistan in Kabul is reportedly under attack. Reuters quoted an Afghan interior ministry official who said...
Neutrinos
Our understanding of the universe is getting smaller and smaller. In today's Academic Minute, Siena College's John Cummings describes neutrinos...
Bard's Big Cash Crunch
Bard College takes (another) ratings downgrade on liquidity concerns. Can leaders keep defying the conventional financial wisdom?
Alcohol Bans and Sexual Assault
Stanford adopts policy banning large containers of hard alcohol on campus, leading to criticism that such policies do little to protect victims of campus sexual assault.
NLRB: Graduate Students at Private Universities May Unionize
Federal labor board overturns ruling that denied collective bargaining rights. On many campuses, grad students vow to organize. Many higher ed leaders and Republicans in Congress criticize ruling.