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Students and Experts Agree: TikTok Bans Are Useless
With cellular data and VPNs, it’s easy for students to circumvent the TikTok bans sweeping the nation’s universities. That makes experts wonder: What do these bans hope to achieve?
AI Writing Detection: A Losing Battle Worth Fighting
Human- and machine-generated prose may one day be indistinguishable. But that does not quell academics’ search for an answer to the question “What makes prose human?”
Student Loan Servicer Lays Off 500 Employees
Nelnet, a federal student loan servicer, is cutting staff because of delays in the Biden administration’s debt-relief plan and the...
Delaware State Students Protest Campus Police
Delaware State University students on Wednesday held a protest of the university’s police forces, The Delaware News Journal reported. Students...
Probation, Not Prison, for Researcher in China Initiative Case
A jury convicted the former chemical engineering professor on charges linked to allegedly failing to disclose ties to China, but a judge threw out several of the convictions and imposed the lightest possible sentence.
How Boys and Men Struggle in School: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Ioakim Boutakidis, professor of child and adolescent studies at California State University, Fullerton, explores how...
Harvard Backtracks on Fellowship Award
Former Human Rights Watch director said the Kennedy School rejected him over his criticism of Israel. The dean reversed course Thursday.
New Report Outlines Another Way of Gauging Higher Ed’s Value
Black students who attended colleges that serve greater shares of students of color nearly doubled their family income a decade...