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Illinois Grad Union to Resume Strike Tuesday
Graduate assistants at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign went on strike Monday over protracted contract negotiations. The graduate union...
More Bad News on History Jobs
After publishing an anemic preliminary job ads report in November, the American Historical Association released its final annual job ads...
‘Accountability and Opportunity in Higher Education’
Editors discuss new collection of essays about the impact of various state and federal policies on minority students -- an impact the authors see as far too often ignored.
Hawaii Legislators Abandon Plan for Faculty Mandate on OER
Legislators rewrite bill that originally required use of freely accessible educational materials, amid criticism that legislation would have infringed academic freedom and harmed, not helped, the open-access movement.
3 Colleges Check Applicants' Parents' Visa Status
Three colleges in Virginia are checking on the visa status of applicants' parents, even when the applicants are U.S. citizens...
The Character Gap
Want to be a better person? Change your character. In today's Academic Minute, Wake Forest University's Christian Miller discusses why...
Words Matter in Gauging Public Confidence
Gallup survey finds that Americans believe more in "higher education" than in "colleges and universities." Poll also drives home that skepticism is deepest among white men without degrees.
Woody Allen and Academic Freedom
UC San Diego Academic Senate rejects student-led push to cut a course on the filmmaker from the curriculum over sexual abuse allegations.