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The Next Big College Scandal? Parents Giving Up Guardianship for Aid
An investigation by a watchdog journalism organization has discovered dozens of instances in which suburban Chicago parents have given up...
Illinois Faculty Say University Violates NCAA Rule on Mascots
Faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have sent a letter to the head of the National Collegiate...
Paper: Race Connected to Student Borrowing Trends
A brief released Monday in the journal Education Researcher finds that racial differences in student borrowing have diverged over the...
Academic Minute: Uncaged Art and Migrant Children
Today on the Academic Minute, part of University of Texas at El Paso Week, Yolanda Chavez Leyva, associate professor of...
Neil deGrasse Tyson Will Keep His Job at Hayden Planetarium
Neil deGrasse Tyson, head of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium, will keep his job there, according to...
Performance Funding and Underrepresented Student Enrollment
Roughly 35 states have enacted performance-funding formulas that tie support for public colleges to metrics like graduation rates and degree-attainment...
The Value of Voc Ed
Report finds career and technology education courses have a higher wage return for those with no college degree than academic ones.
Borderland Ecological Consciousness
The southern border has been changed by many forces. In today's Academic Minute, part of University of Texas at El...