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Physical Inactivity Is Everyone’s Problem
Today’s kids are not getting enough physical activity. In today's Academic Minute, Johns Hopkins University's Bruce Y. Lee explores why...
All Too Familiar Bias
Leaked Google memo, described as an “anti-diversity screed,” reminds many women in STEM fields of the challenges that remain not just in industry, but in academe.
Eliminating Undergraduates
Facing budget shortfalls and enrollment declines, Marygrove College in Detroit makes an uncommon decision.
UCLA Star: ‘Football and School Don’t Go Together’
University of California, Los Angeles, quarterback Josh Rosen, in an interview with the sports news website Bleacher Report, discussed the...
Mixed Prospect for Growth of Competency-Based Ed
Most competency-based education programs remain nascent, highly localized and of limited size, according a new report from Eduventures, Ellucian and...
Georgia College Will Maintain Flannery O’Connor’s Home
Andalusia (at right), the home and farm where the writer Flannery O'Connor lived for 13 years before she died in...
Returning to Interdisciplinary Roots
Humboldt University of Berlin was founded to train students to think beyond single fields. After shifting away from the model, it has recently started a series of programs to encourage it.
High-Deductible Plans Rise in Higher Ed
Colleges and universities increasingly offered high-deductible health plans, health-care benefits for part-time employees and stand-alone vision plans in 2017, according...