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Law: California CCs Must Negotiate With Adjuncts
In a win for part-time faculty members at California community colleges, Governor Jerry Brown on Friday signed into law legislation...
Kansas to End Grad Student Insurance Subsidies
Graduate student employees at Kansas public universities will lose health care subsidies starting next year, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported. The...
More Blackface Incidents Involving Students
In an academic year that has already seen numerous racist incidents, three more institutions are dealing with blackface images posted...
Student With Gorilla Mask No Longer Enrolled
Tristan Rettke, the East Tennessee State University student who last week disrupted a Black Lives Matter rally wearing a gorilla...
Academic Minute: Footprints of Homo Erectus
Today on the Academic Minute, Kevin Hatala, postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, determines whether the...
Default Rates of 11 Colleges Are Adjusted
The U.S. Department of Education adjusted the cohort default rates of 11 institutions -- including one that was subsequently exempted...
Report: Free Public College Will Be Costly for States
Free four-year tuition at public universities would create significant new costs for states, according to a report released Friday by...
Japanese Cell Biologist Wins Nobel in Medicine
Yoshinori Ohsumi (left), a Japanese cell biologist, was this morning named winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine. He...