Protests by minority students led Harvey Mudd College to scrutinize its notoriously intense course requirements. Campus leaders want to ease pressure on students without sacrificing rigor.
Brian Wansink says his retirement has been “in the works for a long time,” but it comes as a university investigation takes him to task for “misreporting of research data, problematic statistical techniques,” and other violations.
After Ed Meek illustrated a post about what he called the degradation of the university’s surrounding town with pictures of two African-American women, the chancellor, Jeffrey S. Vitter, quickly condemned it.
Colleges want students to make healthy choices and avoid risky behaviors. But the potential pitfalls for undergraduates are great: alcohol abuse, excessive partying, and Greek culture that sometimes can promote dangerous behavior. This collection of articles outlines how leading institutions are making headway. Buy this Idea Lab collection today to help your students be healthier and safer.
A good higher education enables a person to come to grips with the world more deeply, broadly, and richly, and thereby to contribute to what the world has to offer.
Geoff Pullum is optimistic about linguisticsâ application for practical matters. So why do news outlets perpetuate crazy talk about translating animal language?
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