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Cornell Leaders Condemn Prof. ‘Exhilarated’ by Hamas Attack

Cornell University’s top leaders are condemning an associate history professor’s statement at a rally that Hamas’s recent deadly attack on...
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Misconceptions About Queer Sexualities in Arab Cultures: Academic Minute

Today on the Academic Minute: Mejdulene Bernard Shomali, assistant professor in women’s and sexuality studies at the University of Maryland...
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Admissions Graduate

Graduate Applications Up, but Enrollment Falls

Enrollment fell by 4.7 percent in 2022, with particularly steep drops for doctoral programs at top research universities—a possible sign that higher ed’s enrollment crisis is reaching the graduate level.

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Diversity Socioeconomics

Presidents Break With Supreme Court on Affirmative Action

Most college and university presidents disagree with the decision on race-conscious admissions and think it will reduce diversity in higher education—just not at their institutions, a new survey finds.

People sit in a large, full room, with some people standing in the back. Multiple individuals are holding protest signs, including one saying “We Demand Freeze Academic Transformation” and another saying “Gee You Drove Us in a Ditch.”
Faculty Issues Tenure

WVU Professors Get Their Layoff Notices

Amid the sweeping elimination of degree offerings and faculty members’ jobs at West Virginia University, professors are left with possibly hopeless appeals.

Students at a Brooklyn College counterprotest hold signs in support of Israel that say "We feel your pain," "can you feel ours?" and "must you revel in our murder?" One student has an Israeli flag
Students Free Speech

Middle East Tumult Reverberates on U.S. Campuses

Donors pull funds at Harvard, Penn administrators under fire, incidents at Drexel and conflicting petitions over a Columbia professor.

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Hodson Trust Leaves Big Gifts to Small Colleges

Two small Maryland colleges have received transformational gifts from the Hodson Trust, to be used exclusively for undergraduate scholarships. Hood...
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Student Success The College Experience

Investing in Support for International Students

International students can be seen as a way to boost finances and improve cultural competency among domestic students, but how can higher ed promote academic success for those learners?