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Academic Minute: Freedom of Speech
In today’s Academic Minute, Erik Bleich of Middlebury College contrasts how Americans and Europeans value and protect freedom of speech...
NSF Identifies Priorities for Social Sciences
The National Science Foundation on Thursday released "Rebuilding the Mosaic," outlining the agency's plans for providing support in the social...
Infants and Language
In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Notre Dame's Jill Lany discusses the complex nature of an infant’s ability to...
Fee Fury
Humanities scholars want to know why some top postdoc fellowship programs are charging people to apply.
Summoned to the White House (Update)
Obama invites small group of college presidents for a discussion on access, affordability and productivity.
Rapprochement in Duke China Policy
Months after faculty members voted down plan to charge foreign students U.S. tuition for program entirely abroad, a scaled-back program wins approval.
Who is Being Occupied?
At the New School, not all activists felt welcome in the movement or appreciated its taking over study center. Still, administration gave protesters lots of room, and managed to regain spaces without police force.
'Opting Out'
New book argues that black students at elite colleges still cluster in low-paying fields such as education and social work -- and that universities are partly to blame.