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Notre Dame Approves Gay-Straight Alliance
The University of Notre Dame on Wednesday announced that it would create a recognized gay-straight alliance as a student organization...
Academic Minute: The Psychology of Sentencing
In today’s Academic Minute, James Tabery of the University of Utah explains how a psychological diagnosis of a defendant can...
The Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
An article in The New York Times looks at a growing student movement to push colleges to sell their endowment...
Uproar at Penn State Over Sorority Photo Mocking Mexicans
Officials at Pennsylvania State University are condemning a party by Chi Omega sorority at which members wore sombreros and fake...
Common Application Defends Essay Changes
The Common Application has been facing criticism from some high school counselors and college admissions officials over two changes being...
Layoffs and Cuts at Xavier of Louisiana
Xavier University of Louisiana is planning layoffs and other cuts to deal with a $5 million deficit created when fewer...
Coursera Creates Service to Help Its Many Students Find Jobs
Coursera, the largest platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs), on Tuesday announced Coursera Career Services, a match-making tool aimed...
Alabama Doctoral Student Charged With Threatening Administrators
A University of Alabama graduate student faces criminal charges of stalking and making terroristic threats against officials there in e-mail...