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Murder-Suicide at Penn State's Beaver Campus
A food services employee at Pennsylvania State University's Beaver campus was shot and murdered there Wednesday by a man who...
Older Adults, Exercise and Arthritis
Is merely being active enough, or is there a right way to stay in motion? In today's Academic Minute, Northwestern...
Apparent Relief for Grad Students
Reports indicate congressional negotiators have dropped repeal of tax-exempt tuition waivers for graduate students and other provisions affecting higher ed from final tax-reform bill.
‘Too Much, Too Fast’?
GOP’s Higher Education Act rewrite would give a boost to competency-based education, short-term certificates and alternative providers, but experts worry about the bill’s lack of safeguards.
When Students Are Fair Game
Professors typically refrain from talking about their now-notable former students publicly, but some feel moved to do so in the public interest, good or bad.
Is Anyone Reading This Headline?
Authors of statistics textbook proudly declared, in a footnote, that no one reads footnotes. Photos of the footnote keep going viral.
Academic Minute: Older Adults, Exercise and Arthritis
Today on the Academic Minute, Dorothy Dunlop, professor of medicine at Northwestern University, examines whether being active is enough, or...