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Science, Not Sexism

AAAS pulls advice column telling a female postdoc to ignore her adviser's attempts to look down her shirt, amid outcry from scientists.

Running Out of Time

Many teams at historically black colleges and universities struggle to reach academic progress rate required by NCAA. Next year, the challenge will be even larger.

Pipeline for Hispanic Doctors

The country's only LCME accredited for-profit medical school is working to increase the number of bilingual and multicultural physicians in the U.S.

Trying to Kill Tenure

Faculty members at the University of Wisconsin System are incensed at a legislative move to eliminate tenure from state statute.

On Wealth Gap, Old Song, New Words

It's time for new ideas to confront an old problem: the gap between the wealthiest colleges and all others. Karen Gross offers several bound to stimulate an argument.

Diversifying Study Abroad

At international education meeting, speakers discuss ways to attract nonwhite and low-income students.

'Pedigree'

The class biases of those hiring for the highest-paid entry-level jobs ensure that those jobs go to graduates of elite colleges from affluent backgrounds, a new book argues.

Who Is Stereotyped Now?

After a week of debate over a Boston U professor's generalizations about white students, anger grows over what a Duke professor wrote about black students' names, dating and more.