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In the States
Could Alaska’s Diverse Campuses Survive a Forced Marriage?
A cost-saving plan to consolidate the state’s three universities raises questions about what could be lost.
Highlights
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News
5 Steps to Building a Top-Notch Dual-Enrollment Program
Students and colleges both benefit from the programs, as long as they’re designed and administered properly. Here’s how to do that.
Commentary
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The Review
Stop Trying to Cultivate Student Leaders
The training mostly empowers an elite class that has a vested interest in continuing the systems that put it at the top of the food chain. -
Advice
6 Tips to Improve Your Cover Letter
Why write an application letter so dry that even you wouldn’t want to read it?
Also In the Issue
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News
Why Parents Will Give Up Everything to Pay for Their Kids’ College
Caitlin Zaloom argues that the financial, interpersonal, and moral repercussions of student loans are redefining familial relationships and socioeconomic boundaries. -
Technology
A Professor Wants to Fail Students for Sharing Information in an Online Chat. But Has Tech Changed What Qualifies as Cheating?
He did not discriminate between those who shared information and those merely in the online group. The situation shows higher education’s fraught relationship with new digital tools. -
News
Transitions: U. of Saint Francis, in Indiana, Selects New Chief, MacArthur Fellows Named
Saint Francis’s next president will succeed Sister M. Elise Kriss, who will retire after 27 years at the helm. -
News
White Borrowers? Almost Paid Off. Black Borrowers? Still Indebted.
A new report highlights the long-term burden of student-loan debt and its disproportionate impact on young black borrowers. -
News
China’s Higher-Ed Ambitions Are at Odds With Its Tightening Grip on Academic Freedom
A new report by Scholars at Risk details tactics to silence and intimidate students and professors, as well as a climate of surveillance and self-censorship. -
Government
Education Dept. Takes Aim at a Center on Middle East Studies. Scholars Say That Could Chill Academic Freedom.
A letter from the department suggested that the Duke-UNC center lacks political balance and, as a result, might lose $235,000 in annual federal funds. -
News
Purdue U. Wants to Bar Professors From Betting on Its Games. Here’s Why.
The NCAA has long prohibited athletes and athletics-staff members from such wagering. With sports betting now permitted in more than a dozen states, colleges may need other guidelines. -
News
Why MIT’s Epstein Problem Is ‘Clearly a Women’s Issue’
Decades ago, Nancy Hopkins led successful efforts to advance equity for women on the elite campus. Now she reflects on what has, and hasn’t, changed. -
News
Amid Rumors of Shift to Unfunded Ph.D.s, U. at Buffalo Says It’s Only a Temporary Pause
“We recognize that this will be disappointing to nearly everyone,” the university’s associate dean of graduate education wrote in an email. -
News
E-Scooters Have Taken Over Many College Campuses. Now Scholars Are Studying the Phenomenon.
Virginia Tech and Michigan State University recently announced research to collect and analyze real-time data on how the devices are being used. -
Academic Labor
Grad Students at Private Colleges Could Lose the Right to Unionize
The National Labor Relations Board is revisiting graduate students’ right to unionize. But rather than looking at an individual case, the board is proposing a rule that would exclude teaching and research assistants from being covered by the National Labor Relations Act. -
News
‘Don’t Teach. Strike’: Professors Join the Fray as Millions Prepare to March Against Climate Change
Some faculty members plan to cancel classes on Friday and take part with their students in the youth-led Global Climate Strike. -
News
Why Some Colleges Have Abandoned In-House Safe-Ride Programs in Favor of Uber, Lyft, or Via
Northwestern University announced on Wednesday that it’s outsourcing its late-night-ride service to the private ride-sharing company Via. That’s not unusual. -
Global
International Students Bailed Out Colleges in the Last Recession. They Won’t This Time.
As another downturn looms, several factors have led to two years of declines in new international enrollments, with few experts expecting a turnaround.