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Research Finds No Gender Bias in Academic Science

Reviewing decades of studies, researchers with “adversarial” perspectives conclude that tenure-track women and men in STEM receive comparable grant funding, journal acceptances and recommendation letters—and that women have an edge over men in hiring.

North Dakota Quietly Enacts First Anti-DEI Law

North Dakota governor Doug Burgum signed into law on Monday a “specified concepts” bill banning educational institutions from asking students...
Demonstrators supporting the University of Michigan graduate student workers' strike cross a street, holding signs.

Grading Amid a Grad Workers’ Strike

University of Michigan graduate student instructors and staff assistants have been striking for almost a month. Now, the institution is trying to grade without them.

A stack of three books, stamped with the words "Diversity," "Equity" and "Inclusion."
Opinion

10 Ways to Appropriate DEI

Advocates for diversity, equity and inclusion should be wary of these 10 (mis)uses of the language and principles of DEI, Alena Wolflink writes.

College Board to Change AP in African American Studies

the College Board announced Monday that it would make changes in the controversial new offering in African American studies. The...
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Tuition Discount Rates Hit New High

According to a new NACUBO study, private college tuition discount rates hit a record 56.2 percent, continuing a pattern of annual increases.

A woman and man, older than traditional college students, laugh while carrying books and wearing backpacks.

The ‘Some College, No Credential’ Cohort Grows

National Student Clearinghouse Research Center report documents an increase in learners with college credits but no credential and finds they are returning to college at lower rates than in the past.

A drawing of one hand extending a sealed envelope, with the word "RESIGNATION," in red, written over the envelope seal, to another outstretched hand.
Opinion

Why Florida’s Public College Presidents Should Resign 

The best strategy for countering Governor DeSantis’s attacks on higher ed could be for Florida’s public university presidents to threaten to resign en masse, Robert Birnbaum writes.