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Academic Minute: Altruism and Kidney Donation
Today on the Academic Minute, Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, digs into the brain to understand...
Argosy on Brink of Closure
The for-profit college chain will shut down today, affecting several thousand students, if a new buyer is not secured -- a scenario observers say has small chances of happening.
Sexism and Sexual Violence in Campus Tech Groups
The public focuses on fraternities when it comes to rape culture, but a recent incident at Berkeley illustrates how other kinds of student clubs can be hotbeds of sexual violence.
What Poker Players Sense
What can poker experts tell us? In today's Academic Minute, the University of California, Davis's Seth Frey looks into how...
A Tough Balance
As President Trump says colleges ignore free speech, University of Tennessee at Knoxville cites the First Amendment as a reason not to expel students for blackface. In protest of that decision, students engage in form of protest Trump repeatedly questions.
Broader Executive Action
White House may be planning executive actions on program-level outcomes data and student loan risk sharing, as well as on free speech, perhaps around the release of its proposed budget next week.
Michigan Governor Proposes Tuition-Free Community College
In her first state budget, released Tuesday, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer proposed a tuition-free community college plan that would cost...
Accreditor Rejects Criticism From UNCF
The president of the primary accreditor for historically black colleges on Wednesday took Michael Lomax, president of the United Negro...