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Academic Minute: Big Brains and Early Mammals
In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Texas at Austin's Timothy Rowe examines how the sense of smell contributed to...
Adjunct Group Starts Offering Health Insurance
The New Faculty Majority, a national group for those faculty members who work off the tenure track, has started offering...
Community Colleges and Learning Outcomes
A new paper from the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment examines the role of measuring student learning outcomes at...
House Committee Backs Cut for Cultural Endowments
The full House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday endorsed a subcommittee's recommendation that Congress cut spending for the National Endowment for...
Reconsidering the Stanford Prison Experiment
Stanford's alumni magazine has published a new oral history of the "prison experiment" 40 years ago in which some students...
Cal State Rejects Governor's Request on Salaries
The California State University Board of Trustees on Tuesday approved a salary of $400,000 for Elliot Hirshman, the new president...
Colleges Urged to Do More to Help Students Avoid Private Loans
Colleges could and should do much more to inform their students about the availability of federal loans and the risks...