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THE REVIEW

The Great Master’s-Degree Swindle

By Kevin Carey

Colleges are making a killing selling dubious credentials to naïve students. It can’t last.

PHILANTHROPY

MacKenzie Scott Donated $560 Million to 23 HBCUs. These Are the Other Things They Have in Common.

By Oyin Adedoyin

A study found that the grantees tended to enroll higher numbers of first-time degree seekers, charge more, and have higher graduation rates. Stable leadership helped, too.

NOW 664 COLLEGES

Here’s a List of Colleges That Require Students or Employees to Be Vaccinated Against Covid-19

By Andy Thomason and Brian O’Leary

More colleges are mandating vaccinations. Here are the ones we know about.

CHRONICLE REVIEW

Perils of the Public Humanities

By Len Gutkin

On politicized grant-making, threats to speech, and more.

INNOVATION THAT MATTERS

What Prevents Isolation and Dropout for Nontraditional Students? Connection

By Goldie Blumenstyk

Online and adult learners don’t always get “that camaraderie, that rah-rah feel,” says the founder of Upswing, which provides tutoring and coaching to keep students on track.

Virtual Events: Tune In Live

Make your campus as safe as possible this fall for students. Sign up here for today’s forum on managing Covid-19 risks among the vaccine-hesitant.
Prepare more students for careers in STEM. Register here for Thursday’s forum on how colleges can attract students to cutting-edge programs.
Plan for the unplannable. Sign up here for a forum on Wednesday, August 18, about how colleges can build their financial models for an unpredictable future.

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University of Oregon Receives Second $500 Million Gift for the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact

Supporting faculty, academic and innovation programming, a second $500 million gift is enabling the Knight Campus to expand, creating new core research facilities and flexible lab spaces that support bioengineering and applied science research.

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