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The graduate students want the department to open up its idea of what placement should be, the chair said. “We’re willing to do that, and we’ve started.” (PREMIUM)
The humanities are anomalous in their focus on academe as being “the one true career path” for students, said a panelist at the MLA conference, and new data about where graduates work reflect that.
The “scale of Ito’s involvement” with the accused child sex trafficker spurred one lab director to announce his departure plans, and another academic’s resignation followed closely.
Over two recent decades, older students have drastically increased the rates at which they borrow for college. They’re also racking up higher amounts. (PREMIUM)
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