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President Soothes Student Stress with Stories
To support students’ mental health near finals at Hollins University, President Mary Dana Hinton created a bedtime stories event, reading to attendees from familiar children’s books over snacks.
Report Proposes Focusing Pell Grant on Living Costs, Not Tuition
The Pell Grant should be redesigned to cover a student’s living costs instead of an institution’s tuition and fees, a...
Western Illinois Seesaws on Diversity Scholarship
Western Illinois University is reinstating scholarships for incoming students of color that it scrapped earlier this month in response to...
The Week in Admissions News
UNC board changes admissions; hiring policies on race; Occidental ends legacy admissions; NACAC acquires Character Collaborative; Education Department discharges loans of 7,400 CollegeAmerica students.
NCF Recruiting Bonuses Raise Legal Questions
New College of Florida interim president Richard Corcoran offered $5,000 bonuses to staff members who hit an enrollment target of...
UNC Board Changes Admissions, Hiring Policies on Race
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees voted Thursday to prohibit the institution from considering race...
Weighing Retracting an Abortion Critic’s Work, With Lawyers Involved
Frontiers in Psychology retracted a paper by Priscilla K. Coleman. The British Journal of Psychiatry declined to retract another, after which editorial board members resigned. It’s a fight over abortion research in the post-Roe era.
Why Should We Ask More Questions? Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Einav Hart, assistant professor of management at the George Mason University School of Business, explains...