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Paid Vacation for Grad Assistants
Boston U formalizes a graduate student leave policy allowing year-round stipend recipients 10 days off.
Death Knell for Trigger Warnings?
A new study says trigger warnings are useless. Does that mean they should be abandoned?
Not Feeling Bullish on New Logo
Designed to cut through the “alphabet soup” of public university acronyms in Florida, bold new University of South Florida bull logo gets mixed reviews. Many say it reminds them of Merrill Lynch.
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What’s Missing in the Admissions Madness Discussion?
Certain ways of framing and covering the scandal are misleading and only reinforce exaggerated or inaccurate views of higher education, argues Margaret Dunning.
Half of the Women in the Field
Survey of economics association members finds 48 percent of women have been discriminated against on the basis of sex within the last 10 years. Findings on nonwhite, disabled and LGBTQ economists are concerning, too. What will the association do about it?
If Academics Ruled Basketball (Women's Edition)
How would the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament look if success in the classroom mattered more than talent on the court? Here's the annual Academic Performance Tournament.
Cornell, Harvard Drop GRE for English Ph.D.
Move goes against the norm for top-ranked doctoral programs.
The Admissions Scandal and a Service for Ph.D.s
Popular alternative-academic career platform was bought last year by the foundation behind the recently uncovered undergraduate admissions scheme.