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Colleges Applaud Proposal to Expand National Science Foundation
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities praised the introduction of a bipartisan bill in the U.S. Congress that would...
Proposed Legislation Would Bar Chinese STEM Graduate Students
Two Republican senators and a Republican congressman introduced legislation on Wednesday that would bar Chinese nationals from receiving student or...
Academic Minute: Learning From Sourdough Bread
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Allegheny College Week, Eric Pallant, professor of environmental science and sustainability, explains what...
Links Between Lead Poisoning and Food Insecurity
There are links between lead poisoning and food insecurity. In today's Academic Minute, part of Allegheny College Week, Caryl Waggett...
The Pulse: Greg Fenton of RedShelf
This month's episode of the Pulse podcast features an interview with Greg Fenton, CEO and co-founder of RedShelf, an e-textbook...
Can Active Learning Co-Exist With Physically Distanced Classrooms?
Advocates for active learning worry that their favored approach will be hard to pull off in physically distanced classrooms -- and that instructors will revert to the straightforward lecture.
Ramping Up for Remote Instruction
Anticipating continued remote instruction this fall, nonprofits, ed-tech companies and institutions race to provide faculty with the resources and training they need to teach well online.