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White House Seeks Investigation Into UNLV Professor
An assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas has apologized for blaming President Trump for...
Professor Apparently Demoted to Lecturer After Losing Ph.D.
Jodi Whitaker, a scholar of communication whose Ph.D. was revoked in August, has apparently been demoted from assistant professor at...
Academic Minute: Effects of Incarcerated Parents
Today on the Academic Minute, Jill McCorkel, associate professor of sociology and criminology at Villanova University, examines how a jailed...
Chicago Professor Wins Nobel in Economics
Richard H. Thaler was named this morning the winner of the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Thaler, a professor...
Oglethorpe Receives $50M to Create Business School
Oglethorpe University has announced a $50 million gift -- the largest in its 182-year history. The funds will be used...
Higher Education Groups Issue Transfer Guidelines
Three higher education associations issued a joint statement Friday on student transfer and the awarding of college credits -- an...
Union Hopes Dashed, Minnesota Professors Try New Strategy
Faculty organizers at the University of Minnesota at the Twin Cities are backing away from their formal unionization goal and...
Academic Minute: Aviation and Climate Change
Today on the Academic Minute, Ethan Coffel, fifth-year Ph.D. student in earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University, determines whether...