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Academic Minute: Laughing Gas
Today on the Academic Minute: Nicholas Leadbeater, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Connecticut, asks if laughing gas...
Paper Questions Effectiveness of Free Tuition
A new Brookings Institution paper by Judith Scott-Clayton questions whether free tuition is the most effective use of additional funds...
Last Day to Apply for Lego Professor of Play
Who says play is just for kids? Not the University of Cambridge, which through today is accepting applications for a...
NEH on the Chopping Block?
Report that first Trump budget will try to kill arts and humanities endowments alarms many academics. Science programs in Energy Department could also face cuts.
Oral History No Longer Subject to IRB Approval
Life will soon be a little easier for oral historians and a number of other kinds of scholars who have...
President Trump
As the 45th president is inaugurated, background on his campaign, his stated policies toward higher education and the deep concerns of many in academe.
Publishing's Prestige Bias
Study suggests top humanities journals favor research by professors working at or who earned Ph.D.s at elite institutions.
Macmillan Learning Acquires Intellus Learning
Macmillan Learning this week announced the acquisition of Intellus Learning. Macmillan is the publisher of a range of education materials...