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College Choice Among First-Generation College Students
Many factors can influence the choice of a higher-learning institution. In today's Academic Minute, Gwynedd Mercy University's Tiffany J. Cresswell-Yeager...
Failure to Communicate
Professor suspended for saying a Chinese word that sounds like a racial slur in English.
Be Careful What You Wish For
Study finds that when top colleges give more weight to interviews and essays, seeking more diversity, they may get less. Giving less weight to standardized testing, on the other hand, works.
Small Colleges Try to Contain COVID Clusters
Small colleges are seeing their share of COVID-19 outbreaks. Will small scale make containment easier than it's proving to be at large universities with more resources?
Cross-Campus Comparisons on COVID Aren't Easy
Public universities in Illinois vary in their COVID-testing capacity and reporting protocols, raising questions about how complete a picture some campuses may have of the rate of infection.
Koch Foundation and Others Fund ASU's Higher Ed 'Redesign'
Arizona State University last week announced that the Charles Koch Foundation and a group of other philanthropies will give the...
Counties and Colleges Wrangle Over COVID-19
Campus leaders in Kansas, Michigan and Texas face pressure from local health authorities to toughen COVID-19 restrictions, and some push back.
CARES Act Funding Rule Enjoined in Massachusetts
A federal judge for the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts has enjoined a Department of Education rule that bars undocumented...