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3 Community Colleges to Be Merged in Alabama
The Alabama Community College System's Board of Trustees has endorsed a plan to consolidate three two-year institutions in the southern...
Opinion
Coming to You Soon: Uber U
In higher education, we are increasingly facing the distinct possibility of a faceless future, teacherless courses, online everything, argues David Theo Goldberg.
U Texas to Punish Professors Who Bar Guns From Class
In legal papers filed this week, the University of Texas and the state attorney general said that professors in the...
Extreme Experts
What is an extreme expert? In today's Academic Minute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Wayne Gray looks at this group and their...
Earlier FAFSA Popular, but Problematic, Too
The federal financial aid application now allows students to use existing federal tax data, designed to inform families earlier about their available aid. But student advocates say colleges may undercut progress by moving up their own deadlines for students.
Defending a Late Colleague
New book criticizing a well-known professor of neuroscience at MIT who died this year sparks ire and an unusual public response from her colleagues.
How Students Make Decisions
New book explores how those at seven elite liberal arts colleges make decisions about academics, social life and more.
New Programs: Business, Exercise Science, Communication
Mesa College, of the San Diego Community College District, is starting an associate degree in business for students who plan...