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Ratings and Gender Bias Over Time
Two new studies show how bias against women in student ratings operates over time, worsening with critical feedback and instructor age.
New Programs: Finance, Mexican American Studies, Public Policy
Felician University is starting a B.S. in finance. St. Mary’s University, in Texas, has added a minor and a certificate...
Fewer Affordable Options for Pell Grant Students
Fewer than a quarter of public four-year institutions, and only 40 percent of community colleges, meet a college access group’s definition of affordability.
Report: ‘Whiteness Rules’ in Selecting Presidents
A new report by the College Futures Foundation can be summed up by its title: “Whiteness Rules: Racial Exclusion in...
Therapy Without Limits
As part of its plan to improve mental health treatment for students, Oglethorpe University removed the cap on the number of counseling sessions allowed.
Why Do Only Some People See Ghosts? Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Frank McAndrew, Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology at Knox College, explores why some people...
The Week in Admissions News
Attack on legacy admissions; Stanford’s history of anti-Jewish bias; activists resist “Dixie.”
Black Faculty Members Leave Mizzou
At least nine Black faculty members have left the University of Missouri at Columbia in 2022, The Columbia Missourian reported...