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Gallaudet Reinstates Diversity Official
Gallaudet University has reinstated Angela McCaskill, the institution's chief diversity officer, who was suspended for signing a petition against the...
Controversy on Prof Who Disputes Newtown Killings
James Tracy, a communication professor at Florida Atlantic University who writes about conspiracies is raising eyebrows by suggesting that the...
Academic Minute: Psychology of the Handshake
In today’s Academic Minute, Florin Dolcos of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign explains the importance of the handshake in...
ITT's $46 Million Settlement
ITT Educational Services, a for-profit college chain specializing in technical programs, last week announced that it had agreed to a...
Does U. of Wyoming Need Out-of-State Trustees?
Legislation proposed in Wyoming would expand the board of the University of Wyoming from 12 to 14, allowing the additional...
Humboldt State, Mocked by Jimmy Kimmel, Invites Him to Campus
When Humboldt State University announced the creation of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research (to focus on marijuana policy analysis)...
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Stem Cell Research
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal of a lawsuit challenging (without success) the right of...
How Economics Journals Have Evolved
A new analysis released by the National Bureau of Economic Research (abstract available here) tracks the changes among the five...