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White Privilege
Study documents key ways that white (and sometimes Asian) students have an advantage in admissions over Black and Latinx students.
Law Students Protest Research Database Contracts With ICE
Students at multiple law schools are pressuring administrators to sever ties with LexisNexis and Westlaw, which they claim help the Department of Homeland Security target undocumented immigrants.
Academic Minute: Comparing Pandemics, Ancient and Modern
Today on the Academic Minute: Amanda E. McKinney, assistant professor of health sciences at Doane University, examines what we can...
Florida Board Chair Defends Stance on Professors Testifying
The chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Florida on Friday defended the university’s stance, since abandoned...
Southern Cal Faculty: Lack of Statement Creates ‘Toxic Atmosphere’
More than 65 faculty members at the University of Southern California have signed an open letter to express "dismay about...
Middle East Studies Group to Vote on BDS Resolution
Members of the Middle East Studies Association voted last week to advance a resolution supporting the academic boycott of Israeli...
Feds Will Establish Rule-Making Committee for Early 2022
The Department of Education announced Friday in an unofficial notice that it will establish the Institutional and Programmatic Eligibility Committee...
Columbia Student Fatally Stabbed Near Campus
A graduate student at Columbia University died, and another man was wounded, after they were stabbed in Upper Manhattan Thursday...