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VA Dealing With Backlog of GI Bill Benefits
GI Bill recipients are waiting longer than three weeks on average to receive housing benefits this fall. There were 158,922...
Bill Would Address Evaluation, Transparency of Experimental Sites
Senator Todd Young, an Indiana Republican, announced legislation Monday that would lay out requirements for the Education Department to collect...
Academic Minute: Women and Minorities in STEM
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Amherst College Week, Sheila Jaswal, associate professor of chemistry, explores ways to increase...
Study Explores Parental Wealth and College Outcomes
A new study by researchers at Duke University and the University of Massachusetts at Boston exploits an intergenerational database of...
MIT Announces Plan for $1B Effort on Computing, AI
Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday morning announced a $1 billion plan to create a new college of computing within...
Tennessee Rejects Plan to Move Law School
The Tennessee Higher Education Commission voted 8 to 5 Monday to reject a plan to relocate a private law school...
Jury Awards Professor $1.3M in Age Bias Case
American University discriminated against a former professor on the basis of her age when it denied her tenure, a unanimous...
Vulcanism and Mass Extinctions
Volcanic eruptions have shaped life’s history on Earth. In today's Academic Minute, part of Amherst College Week, David Jones details...