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Yale Gives Update on $50M Faculty Diversity Initiative
Two years into its $50 million faculty diversity initiative, Yale University says it has hired 50 new ladder-rank professors. Some...
‘A Practical Education’
Author discusses his new book about why those who major in liberal arts disciplines -- and the humanities in particular -- make great employees.
Free Impact on N.Y. Community Colleges
New York's new public tuition scholarship comes with a full-time enrollment requirement, which may help boost the state's community colleges.
VA Drops Plan to Nix Ethics Rule
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on Wednesday dropped a controversial plan to suspend an ethics law that prevents its...
Sense of Place
Our physical environment affects us in many ways. In today's Academic Minute, Montana State University's Susan Gilbertz looks into how...
The New, Improved IPEDS
A decade in the making, upgrade of the federal government’s main higher ed database enables tracking part-time and adult students and gauging graduation rates for Pell Grant recipients. Limits remain, though.
Sociology's ‘Mic Drop’ Moment
Social scientists clap back at U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts after he calls data on partisan gerrymandering “sociological gobbledygook.”
2 More Campus Speakers Shouted Down
Columbia students prevent British anti-Islam activist from talking via video. Michigan students block part of Charles Murray talk.