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Can Free College Plug a Leaky Workforce Pipeline?
Maine started a temporary free college program to entice high school graduates affected by the pandemic to enroll in community colleges.
New Presidents or Provosts: Cuyahoga CC, Finlandia U, Grand Canyon U, Loyola U of Chicago, Nazareth College, Onondaga CC, Paradise Valley CC, Salisbury U, Tompkins Cortland CC, U of Kentucky
Michael A. Baston, president of Rockland Community College, part of the State University of New York system, has been named...
Penn State Won’t Fire Professor Involved in Vaccine Tussle
Pennsylvania State University will not fire a professor who scuffled with a student counterprotester at a COVID-19 vaccine rally on...
Declining Respect for Human Rights: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Stephen Bagwell, assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri at St. Louis...
Carnegie Mellon Offers Inflation Relief to Employees
Carnegie Mellon University announced Tuesday that it is offering eligible employees a one-time $1,500 payment to help combat rising inflation...
6 Years in Prison for Ex-President of Franklin College
Thomas Minar, the ex-president of Franklin College, in Indiana, received a sentence of six years in prison and six years...
A Sulfurous End for the Dinosaurs
Why did the asteroid that heralded the end of the dinosaurs have such a profound impact? In today’s Academic Minute...
‘Beyond Rhetoric’ on Diversity
UMass-Boston aspires to be an antiracist institution. Some faculty members disagree with this, saying it’s limiting for a university. Others raise major concerns about the institution’s ongoing treatment of its Africana studies faculty.