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Report on State of Postsecondary Education in Prisons
A new report from Ithaka S+R attempts to survey the landscape for postsecondary education in prisons. As did another recently...
A President and 2 Vice Presidents Placed on Leave
With little information given, Contra Costa community college's president and two interim vice presidents were placed on leave pending the results of investigations into "personnel matters."
Professor Who Called Students Fat and Joked About Shooting Them Resigns
Hikmet Budak resigned his endowed chair in plant sciences and left Montana State University after an internal investigation determined that...
Professor Accused of Calling a Student a ‘Terrorist’
Dimitris Achlioptas, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is on leave as the...
Legal Challenge to Arkansas's New Tenure Policy
Revisions to the University of Arkansas system’s tenure policy violate faculty due process rights in retroactively modifying contracts, according to...
The New Anti-Trump Trope in Commencement Speeches?
Is there an emerging trope for referencing President Trump in commencement speeches? At Northeastern University in May 2016, John Kerry...
Virginia Tech Will Pay Some New Students to Delay
Virginia Tech is expecting hundreds of extra freshmen to enroll this fall, so the university is offering many of them...
Forensic Misconduct
Forensic science still has a fallibility -- people. In today's Academic Minute, Montclair State University's Jessica Henry explores what can...