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Civil Liberties Groups Oppose Yik Yak Bans
Several civil liberties and academic freedom organizations have sent the U.S. Education Department a letter urging it to avoid decisions...
Pro-Palestinian Protesters Disrupt Speech at SF State
Pro-Palestinian protesters shouted down the mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, while he was speaking Wednesday at San Francisco State University...
Whitman Drops 'Missionary' Name for Mascot
Whitman College, a liberal arts institution in Washington State, is named for Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, 19th-century Christian missionaries. But...
Skidmore Drops Admissions Testing Requirement
Skidmore College announced Wednesday that it is dropping its past requirement that applicants submit SAT or ACT scores. “We’ve found...
Two Union Wins for Non-Tenure-Track Instructors
Service Employees International Union got two big wins this week, at Boston University and the University of Southern California. In...
CEO of International Educators Group to Retire
The executive director and CEO of NAFSA: Association of International Educators is retiring at the end of December after an...
Macmillan Learning Acquires Online Writing Tool
Publisher Macmillan Learning on Wednesday announced it had acquired WriterKEY, an online tool that lets writing instructors leave detailed spoken...
Academic Minute: Hurricane Irene Erosion
Today on the Academic Minute, Tim Cook, assistant professor in the department of earth environment and physics at Worcester State...