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‘We Are Hurt’: UMass Students Upset After Racist Incidents
Students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst are outraged after a racist email blast targeted Black student organizations, the...
Northwestern Suspends Frats While Investigating Druggings
Northwestern University has temporarily suspended all fraternity-related activities, following reports that students were drugged without their consent at frat house...
Academic Minute: Motivating Teaching Excellence and Faculty Diversity
Today on the Academic Minute: Allison BrckaLorenz, associate research scientist at Indiana University Bloomington, explores her research on what contributes...
Middlebury Changes Name of Chapel Gifted by a Eugenicist
Middlebury College's chapel will no longer be known as Mead Memorial Chapel because its namesake, former Vermont governor John Mead...
Taliban Ban Women From Kabul University in Afghanistan
The newly installed chancellor of Kabul University in Afghanistan announced Monday that women would be indefinitely banned from teaching at...
English Professors Study More Than Books
English professors don’t always have their noses in a book. In today's Academic Minute, Santa Clara University's Amy Lueck explains...
Do Algorithms Lead Admissions in the Wrong Direction?
Do they result in colleges filling their classes but not giving enough aid for a student to succeed?
Thinking About Thanksgiving
Some colleges are planning to shift instruction online after the Thanksgiving vacation, but far fewer are doing so than last year when COVID-19 vaccinations were not yet available.