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National Spelling Bee Goes Pay-to-Play
The Scripps National Spelling Bee was until last year a contest that could only be entered by winning regional contests...
Academic Minute: Microbes
Today on the Academic Minute, Stephanie Carr, assistant professor of biology at Hartwick College, discusses thinking small to find big...
Boosting Aid With a Tax on Business
Washington State's new scholarship program, which will help make college free for thousands of students, will be funded by a tax on businesses that need highly skilled and educated employees.
World War I Poetry
We’ve seen and heard a lot of stories from WWII – but what about WWI? In today's Academic Minute, the...
Academic Minute: World War I Poetry
Today on the Academic Minute: Lorie Vanchena, associate professor in the department of Germanic languages and literatures at the University...
Perceptions of the Vikings
Are we romanticizing the Vikings too much in popular culture? In today's Academic Minute, Gettysburg College's Christopher Fee looks into...
A Donor's Demands, a Revoked Chair
A religion professor at the American University in Cairo says the university had no right to revoke his chair title after he resisted a donor's demands that he teach Islam in a preferential manner.
Booted for Winning Too Many Games
University of St. Thomas's separation from its conference -- for too much success -- has reinforced the disparities in wealth and size among Division III institutions.