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Stephen Hawking Warns Against Brexit
Stephen Hawking, the Emeritus Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and more than 150 other Royal Society...
‘Diploma Mills’
Historian A. J. Angulo examines the history of for-profit colleges and universities and how many of the problems surrounding these institutions aren't new, but rooted in a past that goes back to the colonial era.
Obama Administration Announces Higher Ed Tour
The top officials at the U.S. Department of Education are hitting the road to promote their higher education agenda for...
U of Texas Backs Professor in Dispute on Disrupted Event
The University of Texas at Austin announced Wednesday that it found no wrongdoing by a professor in his actions in...
Norovirus Leads Lafayette to Halt Classes Until Monday
Lafayette College, facing an outbreak of norovirus, is calling off all classes and student activities until Monday. College officials said...
Punching With Cadavers
Did our hands evolve for use as weapons? In today's Academic Minute, the University of Utah's David Carrier explains how...
Rethinking Gen Ed
Amid concerns that requirements may not mean much to students or professors, Harvard and Duke Universities both look to curricular changes to improve undergraduate education.
College Endowments Fall as Fiscal Year Starts
In the first six months of fiscal year 2016, college endowments lost an average of 3.8 percent. That number comes...