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Grand Canyon U Loses Lawsuit Against Education Department
A federal district judge in Arizona ruled Thursday that the U.S. Department of Education acted lawfully when it denied Grand...
SUNY Sees Massive Increase in Applications
The State University of New York system is seeing huge success in getting students to apply earlier in the year...
DDT Exposure and Alzheimer’s Disease Risk: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Jason Richardson, professor and associate dean for research in the Robert Stempel College of Public...
Report on Those in Default on Student Loans
New America Foundation has released a report, “ In Default and Left Behind,” based on focus group interviews with 50...
Mysterious Space Diamonds From an Ancient Dwarf Planet
Space has a lot to teach us. In today’s Academic Minute, a Student Spotlight, RMIT University’s Alan Salek discusses the...
A Chill at BYU
Faculty members are being let go from Brigham Young University, and an opaque new office of the LDS church is apparently calling the shots. A common thread is LGBTQ issues.
The Gradual, Disjointed Dispersion of Academic Twitter
Whether Twitter is destined for a fast, slow or no downfall at all remains to be seen. But some in academe aren’t waiting: they are heading for Mastodon or other platforms.
Opinion
The Global Significance of Fossil Fuel Divestment
We’re in a climate emergency, and it’s time for universities to take action, Sheldon Pollock and Jacqueline Goodman write.