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Want Your Stipend? Come to the U.S. First
Columbia tells graduate students they must be in U.S. to be employed -- and paid -- on assistantships. Graduate union says policy causes hardship for international students who went home.
Federal Appeals Court: Title IX Protects Transgender Students
The United States Supreme Court's historic June 15 decision about LGBTQ workers' rights had its first impact on how courts...
Seal Matrix
How did you authenticate your message long before Face and Touch ID? In today's Academic Minute, part of Loyola University...
COVID-19 and the Black Death
Where do we look for historical insight on the current pandemic? In today's Academic Minute: SUNY New Paltz's Michael Vargas...
Nervous Freshmen, Nervous Colleges
Survey finds that 40 percent of incoming freshmen at four-year colleges are likely or highly likely not to attend. Data are even worse for minority students.
Falwell Placed on Leave From Liberty
Executive committee of board acts after president posts photograph of himself with his pants unzipped with a woman who is not his wife.
Academic Minute: COVID-19 and the Black Death
Today on the Academic Minute: Michael Vargas, professor of medieval history at SUNY New Paltz, compares COVID-19 to the period...
COVID-19 Roundup: When the Rubber Meets the Road
Howard, Mount Holyoke and Princeton go online while move-ins, classes and parties begin elsewhere. The Mid-American Conference postpones its fall season and Louisville dismisses three athletes.