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Common App Sees Increase in Early Applications
Through Dec. 1 (an application deadline for some institutions), the Common Application has received 1,077,900 applications for various early-decision programs...
Opting Out of Email
Faculty union at Rutgers urges members to avoid the university’s new email system in the name of academic freedom.
‘A New Moral Vision’
Author discusses new book about how arrival of women in American higher education changed colleges’ sense of moral mission.
Group Work Can Harm Memory Recall
We all remember the slacker in our last group project. In today's Academic Minute, the University of Liverpool's Craig Thorley...
Questioning 'Identity Liberalism'
Is “identity liberalism,” widespread on college campuses, to blame for Donald Trump’s rise? Scholars are divided.
Free Speech, Both Ways
West Virginia University defends right of Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos to speak, but also right of students and faculty members to answer back when he attacked a professor who advocates for gay and minority students.
Hampshire College Resumes Flying U.S. Flag
Hampshire College announced Friday morning that it has resumed flying the U.S. flag from a main flagpole on campus. The...
Student Fatally Stabs Professor
Bosco Tjan, a noted psychology researcher, was killed in the building where he worked.