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Agreement on Title IX Complaints Against Wittenberg
The U.S. Education Department on Friday announced the resolution of complaints filed against Wittenberg University in 2011 and 2013 regarding...
Costs of UNC Athletics Scandal Near $18M
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has accrued nearly $18 million in legal costs stemming from the decades-long...
Hometown Connections and Chinese Favoritism
A paper (abstract available here) published by the National Bureau of Economic Research studies the link between hometown connections in...
One Judge Rules in Trump's Favor on Travel Ban
A federal judge in Virginia ruled in favor of President Trump’s travel ban in finding that the president’s past statements...
Academic Minute: Fear in Others
Today on the Academic Minute, Alexei Morozov, assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, explores whether observing fear...
AU Beirut Settles Claims It Aided Groups Linked to Hezbollah
The American University of Beirut has agreed to pay $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit alleging that it provided material...
Scrutiny Ordered for Certain Visa Applicants
Memos from U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offer a first glimpse of what President Trump’s proposed “extreme vetting” of...
Gates Foundation Unveils Open-Access Platform
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday unveiled Gates Open Research, an open-access publishing platform designed exclusively for the...