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Academic Minute: Discrimination in STEM
In today's Academic Minute, Mary Murphy, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University at Bloomington, discusses women...
Report: 11 States Spend More on Corrections Than Higher Ed
In the five years following 2008, state appropriation support for the median public research university declined by more than 26...
Senate Proposal for Alternative Accreditation Path
Senator Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, and Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, this week introduced a bill that would...
U of Chicago Gets $100 Million to Study Global Conflicts
The University of Chicago announced Wednesday that it would receive $100 million to create a research institute to study global...
Student Loan Default Rate Drops
The proportion of student loan borrowers who defaulted on their debt within three years fell to 11.8 percent for those...
U.S. Appeals Court: NCAA Violated Antitrust Law
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday upheld a lower court's decision that National Collegiate Athletic...
Hopkins Unveils New Plan to Help Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University is today announcing a plan to hire more people from low-income Baltimore areas, The Baltimore Sun reported...
Paychecks Missed for Adjuncts at Alaska-Fairbanks
Nearly 150 adjuncts at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks were not paid on schedule Sept. 18, and some still...