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On the Offensive and In the Lead
College athletes are leading boycotts and prompting conversations about racial injustice. They're also embracing their power to initiate change at their institutions and beyond.
COVID-19 Roundup: Dartmouth's Deferral Flip-Flop; Spelman's Online Discount
Dartmouth reverses course on letting freshmen postpone enrollment. Spelman offers discount for remote instruction. Mount Holyoke won't play varsity sports. Some college football coaches discuss intentional, teamwide immunity.
Britain as ‘Science Superpower’
More money for research infrastructure, post-Ph.D. visas and a new office to attract international talent are among the proposals.
New Programs: Real Estate, Law, Biology, Cybersecurity, Urban Planning, Rehabilitation, Sustainable Development
Chapman University is starting an M.S. in real estate. Cornell University is starting a master of science in legal studies...
WeWork Sells Flatiron School
Co-working company WeWork has sold Flatiron School, a successful early coding boot camp company, to Carrick Capital Partners. Flatiron School...
UCSF Pays $1 Million Ransom to Hackers
The University of California, San Francisco, paid a ransom of $1.14 million to hackers who encrypted and threatened to publish...
Academic Minute: T-Cells
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Longwood University Week, Amorette Barber, associate professor of biology, details one cancer treatment...
3 Colleges to Acquire U of Bridgeport
The result will be a "university park" concept, where students from several universities study, eat, live and work together.