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Brazil's Top Court Upholds Racial Quotas at Universities
Brazil's Supreme Court has upheld the use of racial quotas by universities, AFP reported. The case before the Supreme Court...
Microsoft Invests in Barnes & Noble Nook, College Unit
Microsoft on Monday announced the purchase of 17.6 percent of the Barnes & Noble Nook unit, which also includes the...
Study Questions Impact of Aid for Community College Students
A study released today questions the extent to which Pell Grants and other need-based financial aid improved the retention and...
Academic Minute: Bird Migration
In today’s Academic Minute, Allen Hurlbert of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveals how different species of...
Business Group Calls for State Policy Focus
The key action corporate leaders can take to improve higher education is to advocate for state-level policies that provide incentives...
A Security Lapse at Georgia Tech
In 2009, Georgia Institute of Technologies uploaded sensitive information about U.S. military technologies to servers, where the information could be...
Coach-in-Waiting Trend Spreads to College Basketball
Several major college football programs in recent years have hired assistant football coaches (often at very high salaries) with the...
Booster Benefits Lead to NCAA Sanctions at South Carolina
The National Collegiate Athletic Association cited the University of South Carolina on Friday for a failure to monitor its athletics...