Distress and complications often follow when faculty members focus unwanted sexual attention on their students or junior colleagues. Here’s how college officials deal with such cases and try to resolve complaints.
Two admissions officials who received a letter of inquiry from the department said it is apparently investigating whether colleges have agreed to "restrain trade" within the student-recruitment process.
Tales of rapidly paying off enormous amounts of student debt are popular on the internet, but many borrowers don't have the advantages to blast away loans.
It took Jon H. Oberg, a determined federal bureaucrat, more than a decade of work to claw back one-tenth of the money student-loan providers had claimed using an accounting loophole. Here Mr. Oberg provides the fullest account of the saga — and the lessons he drew from it.
The emotional neediness of American voters has shaped the last 140 years of history, according to Jeremy Young, an assistant professor of history at Dixie State U. And that’s not going to change.
Correction
An item in Tuesday's Academe Today newsletter incorrectly referred to Wesleyan University as Wesleyan College.
Remember "bushlips," the winning entry in the first Word of the Year contest? We didn't think so. "Politically correct," a distant also-ran, had more staying power. Allan Metcalf has the tally.
Paid for and Created by University of Sydney Industry Partners Strengthen University Research University of Sydney’s partnerships are tackling tough challenges, including an effort to build the first quantum computer.
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