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Academic Minute: Fidgeting
Today on the Academic Minute, Jaume Padilla, assistant professor of nutrition at the University of Missouri, discusses whether this sometimes...
Survey: Barriers to Improving Student Success
Reduced state funding is preventing colleges from improving student outcomes, but so are institutional challenges such as a lack of...
Alumni Urge Penn to Repudiate Donald Trump
Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric throughout the presidential campaign has pushed a string of high-profile Republicans to back his opponent, Hillary...
Study: Remedial Education Costs Students $1.3B
A new report from Generation Progress and the Center for American Progress finds remedial education can cost students approximately $1.3...
Fears on Possible Choice to Lead Kennesaw State
Two Georgia publications on Tuesday reported that the Board of Regents plans to pick or is highly likely to pick...
Games and Climate Change
New ways of communicating the effects of climate change are needed. In today's Academic Minute, Barnard College's Stephanie Pfirman explores...
Scaling Up High-Impact Instruction
New series of grants seek to help institutions embed Reacting to the Past and other high-impact teaching practices in the undergraduate curriculum.
Fee-Free Applications
City U of New York, Bowdoin and Trinity of Connecticut all move this month to drop the charges for low-income applicants.