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Academic Minute: Climate Change and Winter Olympics
In today’s Academic Minute, Daniel Scott of the University of Waterloo discusses the potential inability for previous winter Olympic host...
Occidental Bans Investments in Assault Weapon Industry
The board of Occidental College has agreed to bar future investments in companies that manufacture assault weapons, The Los Angeles...
Another Women's College Considers Admitting Men
Chatham University, in Pennsylvania, may soon admit men to the undergraduate program for the first time, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported...
Clark U. Drops Need-Blind Admissions
Clark University, in Massachusetts, has dropped need-blind admissions, in which applicants are admitted regardless of their ability to pay, MassLive.com...
Rush Holt, Advocate for Science, to Leave Congress
U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, a former Princeton University physicist who has been an eloquent advocate for scientific research in Congress...
In Hearing on Athlete Unionization, Northwestern Quarterback Makes Case
In National Labor Relations Board hearings on an unprecedented bid to form a union for college athletes Tuesday, the Northwestern...
The First Bitcoin Donation?
The University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., claims to be the first U.S. institution to receive a donation in...
U. of Illinois at Chicago Faculty Strike for First Contract
After 18 months of trying to negotiate their first union contract, faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago moved...