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Mind the Gap
Lumina Foundation sets 10 new degree attainment goals for 2016 while decrying growing racial and ethnic gaps.
Expelled for Sexuality, and Sent a Bill
A student expelled for having a lesbian relationship and ordered to repay $6,000 in scholarship money is fighting back.
Adjunct Win at Religious College
NLRB official, rejecting stance of Pacific Lutheran U., says non-tenure-track faculty members have right to vote on collective bargaining.
Nominee for Civil Rights
Beginning to fill a long list of Education Department vacancies, Catherine Lhamon, a California lawyer, is picked as assistant secretary for civil rights.
You Can't Say That
Appeals court finds Slippery Rock U. was within its rights to dismiss a tenured professor for sex discussions with students on a spring break trip he led.
Unprofessional Tenure Denial?
American U. says it has track for those with non-academic careers who want to join the faculty. A suit charges that the university only values traditional academic credentials.
The Deceptive Data on Asians
Report urges colleges and other education groups to disaggregate the numbers about Asian-American students, and says current practices to aggregate data hide inequities.
The Mom Penalty
A decadelong research initiative out of the University of California at Berkeley culminates in a detailed look at the effects of children on men's and women's academic careers.