Betsy DeVos, President-elect Trump’s Pick to head the Education Department, has no track record in higher education. But that’s hardly unusual over the post’s short history.
Many people agree that campus sexual assaults are severely underreported. So colleges are using a range of new methods to encourage more students to come forward.
University officials say a campus police officer shot Abdul Artan, a student, after he drove into pedestrians and then emerged with a butcher knife and began stabbing people.
Scott Pulsipher, the new president of Western Governors University, describes how the competency-based education provider builds relationships with students.
Geoff Pullum finds that Arrival isn't the space-aliens movie he was expecting, and it isn't really about linguistic analysis. It's a moving story about something else entirely. (Caveat lector: Geoff makes no attempt to avoid spoiler plot revelations.)
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