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Green Infrastructure to Reduce Water Pollution
Overflowing sewers are a problem in many cities. In today's Academic Minute, part of Swarthmore College Week, Arthur McGarity explores...
UC Drops Elsevier
After months of negotiating over open-access fees and paywalls, the University of California System follows through on threat to cancel its journal subscription deal with Elsevier.
Democratic Take on the Higher Education Act
Senate education committee's top Democrat, Patty Murray, says new higher ed law must take comprehensive approach and tackle college affordability.
Can Chapel Hill Take a Joke With a Point?
University removed a student's satire website on race relations -- and restored it only after faced with legal pressure.
IT Still Old, White and Male
A survey of higher education IT staff shows little progress toward greater diversity but for the first time sheds light on the sexual orientation and disability status of workers in the sector -- with some surprising results.
University Coalition Adds Career Services to Completion Push
A group of 11 large research universities that collaborate on increasing low-income student degree production, dubbed the University Innovation Alliance...
A Revolt at Oxford
Academics say that, in a break from centuries of tradition, central administration will control it.
$100 Million Gift to Harvard for the Arts
Harvard University on Thursday announced a $100 million gift from David E. and Stacey L. Goel for an arts research...