By Colleen Flaherty. Marlboro College and University of Bridgeport drop plans to merge. Marlboro says it's optimistic about finding another partner. More...
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Professor Returns to Work Following Beer Video Review
By Colleen Flaherty. The Associated Press reported that the man in the footage of the incident in question isn’t a student at the university after all, but rather someone who makes web videos. More...
Wake Forest Professors Get Racist Emails
By Colleen Flaherty. Twelve faculty and staff members working in gender studies, sociology and several diversity-related offices at Wake Forest University got threatening emails last week, according to The Charlotte Observer. The anonymous notes reportedly praised the country’s white, male founders and called for the U.S. to be “purged” of ethnic and sexual minorities. More...
New Journal Focused on Reproducibility
By Colleen Flaherty. Cambridge University Press is launching a new open-access journal to help address science’s reproducibility issues and glacial peer-review timelines. More...
2 More Emory Law Professors Reportedly Said the N-Word in Class
By Colleen Flaherty. Emory University said Monday that it received reports of two separate incidents involving two adjunct professors who said the N-word during their respective classes at the law school last week. More...
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Massive Surge in Student Voting
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. A new Tufts study documents that voter turnout among college students doubled in the last midterm election, which may likely influence the coming presidential election. More...
Trauma-Informed Dispute
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Association of college administrators that deal with campus sexual assaults prompts controversy with a new recommendation not to overrely on the behavior of traumatized victims to determine the veracity of their claims. More...
Free Speech Laws Mushroom in Wake of Campus Protests
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. After a rash of student protests against controversial and conservative speakers on college campuses, state lawmakers around the country are passing legislation they say protect everyone’s free speech rights. Not everyone agrees. More...
An Overcorrection?
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Former Baylor economics professor's lawsuit says the Baptist university's high-profile failures with sexual assaults led administrators to overcorrect when a student accused him of rape. More...
Sean Spicer Talk Draws Protesters
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Security at Northeastern Illinois University detained a man after he attempted to jump on stage during a talk by President Trump's former press secretary Sean Spicer. More...
