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Bangladesh's ‘Rickshaw Faculty’
Researcher explores the exploitation of academics at the country’s private universities.
Michigan’s ‘Next Step’ in Technology
U of Michigan starts a “yearlong conversation” about innovation in the classroom to determine what a public research university should look like in the 21st century.
Online and Homegrown
California community colleges unveil online program that allows students to take courses across multiple campuses, a project that replaced a failed attempt to tap for-profit online course providers to meet student demand.
Alabama Student Arrested for Racially Charged Threat
A student at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa who last week was suspended over a racially charged threat has...
Corporate Leaders Urge Support for Basic Research
Leaders of more than three dozen companies signed an advertisement in The Wall Street Journal Wednesday expressing their support for...
Groups Urge Multiyear Income-Driven Repayment
A coalition of 20 groups -- including unions, consumer groups and the loan servicing company Navient -- this week wrote...
Report: Minority Students Overrepresented in Less Selective Colleges
A new analysis from the Center for American Progress shows black and Latino students are underrepresented in the country's most...
Academic Minute: Sex on TV and Teen Behavior
Today on the Academic Minute, Chris Ferguson, associate professor of psychology at Stetson University, examines this question. Learn more about...