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In December, an association representing the country's top athletics directors created a political action committee. It joins the National Collegiate Athletic Association's own lobbying efforts, which have more than doubled in the past five years.

College will investigate those who engaged in "acts of disruption and violence."

Programs that promote themselves as helping students paraphrase may be helping them plagiarize, researcher warns.

Black students graduate, on average, at a rate 22 percentage points lower than white students. Closing that gap will require individual institutions to improve completion rates and highly selective colleges to enroll more black students, a new report says.

Credential innovation is so important because colleges provide much of what employers are looking for, but they don’t assess, document and communicate those outcomes, argues Matthew Pittinsky.

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While it’s usually not mentioned in job descriptions or part of any formal training, a major part of the unofficial duties of faculty members involves helping students deal with personal challenges, writes Angela B. Fulk.

By Angela B. Fulk

Texas A&M professor creates video game to teach students introductory calculus, one of the most difficult academic subjects.

Michigan State plans to bar them from dormitory room doors, in attempt to limit bullying.