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Finding New Home for Silent Sam
Chapel Hill chancellor says she will propose new site for toppled Confederate monument. Some wonder why it should be anywhere on campus, and draw attention to statue's racist roots.
Rutgers Revisits Finding on Professor
Rutgers University ruled that a professor's supposedly satirical comments on white gentrification violated university policy. In response to public backlash, the university is reviewing its initial decision.
Study on Chief Diversity Officers and Faculty Hiring
Is having a chief diversity officer linked to significant gains in faculty diversity? Not really, says a new working paper...
Judge Keeps DACA in Place
A federal judge declined to order an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program while emphasizing he believes...
Study: Students Worldwide Pay to Cheat
Contract cheating is taking place around the world. Since 2014, nearly 16 percent of students have reported paying someone to...
Ripon Falsely Accused of Banning Student Posters
Ripon College was falsely accused of banning posters depicting terrorist acts, the Associated Press reported. Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)...
Academic Minute: Lead in Soil
Today on the Academic Minute, Franziska Landes, graduate student in earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University, warns that danger...
Gift to Spelman Is Largest of Books to HBCU
Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, has donated...