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Toward Better National Data on Postsecondary Education
The Institute for Higher Education Policy is today releasing a series of papers that, taken together, are designed to point...
Opinion
Inner Check, Please
The 2016 election cycle is a murky paradox in which it seems impossible to think of Donald Trump as ever exemplifying a certain long-held conservative doctrine, writes Scott McLemee.
Mizzou Expects to Block Future Campout Protests
In the fall, a student protest movement at the University of Missouri at Columbia attracted national attention when it camped...
Nominee for Best Commencement Speaker Introduction
There isn't a Tony Award for the best introduction of a commencement speaker. But after Vincent Price, provost of the...
Volcanic Flows
What makes the flow of a supervolcano travel so far from the eruption? In today's Academic Minute, the State University...
Amherst and Low-Income Students
In an interview with Inside Higher Ed's reporters and editors, President Carolyn (Biddy) Martin discusses Amherst College's longstanding efforts to...
Tenure Denied
At Dartmouth, an Asian-American professor receives unanimous English department backing and is rejected at higher levels. The same happened to a black historian at the college. Many see a disturbing pattern.
Due Process and Sex Assaults
Law professors issue joint letter saying Education Department guidance to colleges goes too far and poses risks to the rights of accused and of institutions.