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Typos and Personality
Why are some people the grammar police and others not? In today's Academic Minute, the University of Michigan's Robin Queen...
Watchdog Barks -- and Gets Slapped Down
National accreditor ACICS, which faces an existential threat for being too lax with bad actors like Corinthian Colleges, tried to yank its approval of Bristol U, a deeply troubled for-profit. But a judge blocked the accreditor's move.
Shedding Faculty at Saint Rose
AAUP condemns College of Saint Rose for shedding more than 20 tenure-line faculty jobs with what it calls insufficient faculty input.
No Pain, No Gain
When students spend more time in physical activities, they are more likely to succeed academically, study finds.
Punting a Pesky Program
Wyoming's Northwest College, citing budget problems, plans to eliminate journalism program whose encouragement of aggressive student newspaper has nettled campus administrators.
Opinion
Truth for Giulio
The torture of a foreign student has become the synecdoche for uncounted thousands of people now in Egyptian prisons or graves, writes Scott McLemee.
New Metrics Urged for Performance and Equity
A new report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy identifies the key metrics that would help federal and state...
Academic Minute: Typos and Personality
Today on the Academic Minute, Robin Queen, professor of linguistics at the University of Michigan, delves into whether personality type...