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'Cognitive Scaffolding' for Graduate Students
Faculty members play a critical role in how ethnic and racial minorities and women interpret the rigors of graduate school...
Frustrations of Early Career Scientists
Current research funding trends discourage innovative thinking, according to a new essay in a special issue of Nature. The essay...
Iowa State Latest Campus With Racist Posters
Racists posters appeared Thursday morning at about 20 locations around Iowa State University, the latest university this fall to see...
The Great Pumpkin
The Great Pumpkin and Charlie Brown are part of Halloween. In today's Academic Minute, Washington and Lee University's Stephen Lind...
Borrower Defense Rules Finalized
Education Department releases regulations to protect student borrowers against fraudulent and abusive institutions. Although rules are aimed at for-profit colleges, critics say they could have repercussions for all colleges.
Polarized Political Clout
Campaign contributions from for-profit colleges continue to tilt heavily to Republicans. But the struggling sector's political giving is down since peaking in 2012.
New Effort to Track Careers of Humanities Ph.D.s
The Council of Graduate Schools is launching a research project to track the career paths of Ph.D.s in the humanities...
Blackboard Study on How Instructors Use the LMS
Blackboard today released a study on how instructors and students in 70,000 courses across 927 institutions used Blackboard Learn, the...