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2 Mizzou Students Arrested for Anti-Semitic Harassment
Two students at the University of Missouri at Columbia were arrested Monday and charged with sending anti-Semitic, harassing messages to...
Report Details U California Sexual Misconduct Cases
The University of California punished 124 employees across its campuses for sexual misconduct and harassment from January 2013 to April...
Civic Engagement Among Youth
Income equality is an important issue in our country. In today's Academic Minute, New York University's Erin Godfrey examines whether...
Scott Walker Loosens the Purse Strings
Wisconsin governor who has pushed for deep cuts to higher education is now seeking increased spending. Academics welcome the shift, but some worry about the details, including a requirement for monitoring teaching loads.
Closing the Gap
Black students graduate, on average, at a rate 22 percentage points lower than white students. Closing that gap will require individual institutions to improve completion rates and highly selective colleges to enroll more black students, a new report says.
New Visibility for HBCUs, but Not Dollars
New executive order moves HBCU initiative into White House but otherwise doesn't depart significantly from previous executive orders on historically black colleges.
Hidden Figures
Women's studies meets mathematics in a new book arguing for a more inclusive cultural notion of numeracy.
Call for More Federal Oversight
The Education Department needs to better monitor colleges' finances to prevent another costly fiasco like the 2014 collapse of Corinthian Colleges, says the agency's Office of Inspector General.