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Academic Diversity Officers
University of Michigan shares insights from its decentralized diversity accountability structure, in which individual academic and administrative units have their own diversity officers.
Alaska Regents Reject Plan for 'One University' Accreditation
The University of Alaska system's governing board has voted down a plan that would have consolidated the accreditation of the...
St. Thomas Confirms Faculty Layoffs
The University of St. Thomas in Texas won’t renew contracts for 30 professors next year, as part of a restructuring...
A Presidential Apology at Purdue
Purdue University president Mitch Daniels apologized Wednesday for making a controversial and, according to his critics, inaccurate comment about the scarcity of black scholars, which he called “one of the rarest creatures in America.”
Academic Minute: Global Genes of Modern Iran
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Connecticut College Week, Marie Ostby, assistant professor of English, discusses the real story...
Publishers to Review Papers on Chinese Minority Groups
Academic publishers Springer Nature and Wiley both said they would re-evaluate articles previously published on Uighurs, Tibetans and other minority...
Using Retirement Savings to Pay Down Loans
Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, is proposing that Americans be able to use retirement funds to pay off...
Problem Drinking Varies by Race
White students are more likely than students of other racial groups to drink alcohol to fit in or because of...