Years of close calls during collective bargaining led the 14-campus system to develop contingency plans in the event of a work stoppage. The test now is how well those plans will work.
Michigan State University is rethinking how it communicates with students, especially those who are freshmen or the first in their families to go to college. Sending hundreds of emails isn’t the best way — but what is?
Probably not. But there are ways a president could mitigate the federal government’s role in shaping how colleges define and respond to the sort of criticism that Mr. Trump and many conservatives lament.
The leader of a Catholic college within a public university says religion will never disappear from human experience, any more than will rejection and critiques of religion.
Until the 1950s, it was incontrovertibly black. A new book brings together artists and songs that our implicitly segregationist narratives of the music have encouraged us to keep apart.
Keeping track of continuing projects in an ecosystem with a myriad of digital and physical calendars, to-do lists, and file systems can be a challenge. Anastasia Salter shares her simple approach.
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