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Public Affairs Schools Launch Diversity Alliance
Six public affairs schools will launch a Public Affairs Diversity Alliance, they announced Thursday. Their goal is to “encourage and...
Quantum Supremacy
In today's Academic Minute, the Best Science Segment Award as part of "Best of" Week, the University of Maryland Baltimore...
Skipping Free College and Federal Loans
Some California community colleges are turning down state money for free tuition to avoid participating in the federal loan program.
The Dismal (and Too Elitist?) Science
Economists and discipline's main association face criticism that the field's power centers are a small number of top departments. Grad students, meanwhile, push for standards of conduct.
‘Why They Can’t Write’
Author discusses his new book about “killing the five-paragraph essay” and other ways schools and colleges could do a better job of teaching writing.
Potential Breakthrough Against Racist Trolling
Advocates hope a new legal settlement between a former neo-Nazi and a black college student may help other students who find themselves facing digital hate.
Could Lotteries Be Better Than Grant Applications?
Two scientists have used economic theory to suggest that the current system of awarding federal research grants is fundamentally broken...
New Presidents or Provosts: Bladen CC, Brunswick CC, Carnegie Mellon U, College of Charleston, Crafton Hills College, Eastern Nazarene College, Smith College, South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, U of Pretoria, Western U
Reverend Jack Connell, provost and dean of the faculty at Houghton College, in New York, has been selected as president...