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California Public Colleges Must Provide Free Tampons
California public colleges must provide free tampons in bathrooms, under legislation signed Friday by Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, NPR...
SMU Angers Faculty by Lifting Mask Mandate
Southern Methodist University is repealing its mask mandate, effective today. “After carefully reviewing the current COVID-19 environment on campus, SMU...
Professor Not Teaching After Blackface ‘Othello’ Showing
Bright Sheng, Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan, is no longer teaching this semester after he showed his students the 1965 film version of Shakespeare’s Othello, which stars white actor Laurence Olivier in blackface as the titular character.
Academic Minute: Understanding How the Sun Damages Your Skin
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Binghamton University Week: Guy German, associate professor of biomedical engineering, reminds us to...
UNC-Chapel Hill Pauses Classes After Suicides on Campus
Classes are canceled at UNC Chapel Hill this Tuesday due to "multiple reports of suicides" and an attempted suicide on...
Academic Minute: Feeding Kids to Keep Them Learning
Today on the Academic Minute: Michael Kurtz, associate professor of economics at Lycoming College, examines one way to help disadvantaged...
San José State President to Resign After Fall Semester
San José State University president Mary Papazian announced Thursday that she will step down in December. The university agreed last...
Lhamon Nomination for OCR Will Get Senate Vote
The U.S. Senate voted 50 to 49 Thursday to discharge Catherine Lhamon’s nomination for assistant secretary of civil rights at...