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An alliance of 11 public research universities shows that sharing data, ideas and practices can help more low-income students graduate.

Data are sparse but positive about impact of taking a year off before college.

Study finds that educators can tell quite a bit from the freshman year -- and that colleges may be able to use this information in recruiting.

PETA goes after a Yale postdoc for her research on birds, and some academics cry foul.

St. Louis Community College’s annual employer study finds openings for middle-skilled employees but also concerns about applicants’ skills and training.

Much of the journal’s editorial board resigns, saying that a controversial article arguing in favor of colonialism failed to pass peer review but was published anyway -- and that the journal’s editor then misrepresented the process.

Controversy over paper in favor of colonialism sparks calls for retraction as well as worries that academics are relying more on erasure than counterargument to challenge unpopular scholarship.

Those who defend them should consider whether they’d require them indefinitely and whether such a requirement is consistent with good race relations in the country America is becoming, argues Roger Clegg.