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Hometown Connections and Chinese Favoritism
A paper (abstract available here) published by the National Bureau of Economic Research studies the link between hometown connections in...
Costs of UNC Athletics Scandal Near $18M
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has accrued nearly $18 million in legal costs stemming from the decades-long...
Agreement on Title IX Complaints Against Wittenberg
The U.S. Education Department on Friday announced the resolution of complaints filed against Wittenberg University in 2011 and 2013 regarding...
UC Berkeley Chancellor Violated Ethics Rule
An investigation at the University of California, Berkeley, found that its chancellor, Nicholas Dirks, broke university policy by accepting free...
Lawmakers Complain, Tennessee Chattanooga Fires Reporter
After pushback from Tennessee lawmakers about how a journalist handled herself while reporting on the state’s transgender bathroom access legislation...
China Bars Professor From Returning to Australia
China has barred one of its citizens, a professor at an Australian university, from leaving the country. State officials suspect...
Cleveland Fed Finds Rising Per-Student Tuition Revenue
Per-student tuition revenue increased sharply since the late 1980s at public and private nonprofit colleges and universities, even as state...
University of Cincinnati Places Law Dean on Leave
The University of Cincinnati placed its College of Law dean on administrative leave Wednesday shortly after she blamed deficit-closing efforts...