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Academic Minute: Primes and Particles
Today on the Academic Minute, Martin Krieger, professor of planning at the University of Southern California, explains that as we...
More Aid for the Needy
New federal data show rising number of students receiving Pell Grants while median family incomes of recipients fall.
Mixed-Aged Children in Preschool
Learning with younger classmates may not be helping some preschool children. In today's Academic Minute, Ohio State University's Kelly Purtell...
Clearing the Shrapnel
Gender-based discrimination in the academic workplace isn’t always overt, but the “shrapnel” of small indignities stays with you. That’s the premise of a new book on this kind of bias, and how to alleviate it.
Pressure to Build the Class: 2016 Survey of Admissions Directors
The pressure on college admissions offices to produce a new class is getting more intense, according to the 2016 Inside...
Lafayette Board Reaffirms Tenure Denial
Lafayette College has reaffirmed its decision to deny tenure to Juan Rojo, the assistant professor of Spanish who launched a...
Robot-Written Peer Reviews
Computer-generated gobbledygook can pass for the real thing with many faculty members, study finds.
The State of Undergraduate Education
The Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education releases its first report, using data to lay out a broad picture of students at today's two- and four-year colleges.