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Get Help or Let Them Die?
Student deaths and drug overdoses are prompting discussions on and off college campuses about strengthening medical amnesty and Good Samaritan laws to protect bystanders who call 911.
Tufts Strikes Sackler Name From Campus
Tufts will remove the name of a family closely linked to opioids from its medical campus as it releases a report on decades of donations. Family's lawyer calls the decision "intellectually dishonest," but fundraising experts see needed reckoning with the past.
Using Retirement Savings to Pay Down Loans
Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, is proposing that Americans be able to use retirement funds to pay off...
New Programs: Teaching, Computer Science, Engineering
Millikin University is starting a master of arts in teaching. New York Institute of Technology is starting a Ph.D. in...
Publishers to Review Papers on Chinese Minority Groups
Academic publishers Springer Nature and Wiley both said they would re-evaluate articles previously published on Uighurs, Tibetans and other minority...
Academic Minute: Global Genes of Modern Iran
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Connecticut College Week, Marie Ostby, assistant professor of English, discusses the real story...
A Presidential Apology at Purdue
Purdue University president Mitch Daniels apologized Wednesday for making a controversial and, according to his critics, inaccurate comment about the scarcity of black scholars, which he called “one of the rarest creatures in America.”
Academic Diversity Officers
University of Michigan shares insights from its decentralized diversity accountability structure, in which individual academic and administrative units have their own diversity officers.