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Direct Admissions Takes Off
At West Texas A&M, at Minnesota’s colleges and with the Common App, colleges are dropping applications as a requirement to be admitted.
Harvard Lobbies Congress to Cut Endowment Tax
Harvard is pushing Senate Democrats to consider reducing the controversial tax that draws an estimated $50 million annually from its $39 billion endowment. Many wealthy private universities want the tax eliminated.
A Merger Doesn’t Happen, and an Art Institute Ends
San Francisco Art Institute ceases operations after an effort to merge into University of San Francisco is rejected.
Woman Extorts Penn State Athletes for Sexual Images
A woman extorted two unnamed Pennsylvania State University athletes after she convinced them—and other athletes across the country— to send...
Emoji: Language or Communication? Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Week: Benjamin Weissman, lecturer of cognitive science, explores the emoji...
Second Round of Layoffs at Erie CC
Erie Community College is laying off 60 people in nonfaculty jobs, The Buffalo News reported. The cuts are in addition...
UNC Chapel Hill Pays Nikole Hannah-Jones Not to Sue
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has agreed to pay Nikole Hannah-Jones a sum that is less than...
Undergraduates Produce Usable Data for Scientists
Roosevelt University undergraduates engaged in a community science project that produced usable data for scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum.