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By Andy Thomason. The National Science Foundation has frozen millions of dollars in grants to the University of Connecticut after auditors found that two professors there used grant money to buy equipment from their own company, The Hartford Courant reports. More...

By Andy Thomason. A Duke University student has apologized for hanging a noose on the campus last month, and will be allowed to return to the college next semester, The News & Observer reports. The undergraduate, whose identity has not been revealed, wrote in a letter of apology that the noose stemmed from a “lack of cultural awareness and joking personality.” More...

By Andy Thomason. A conference on the Charlie Hebdo massacre is back on at Queen’s University Belfast, days after the institution in Northern Ireland said it was canceling the event, a decision that drew the scorn of scholars. The Guardian reports that the university said its initial decision last month to call off the symposium had been prompted by organizers’ failure to fill out a risk-assessment form. The Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities rejected that rationale, saying instead that the university was worried about its security and reputation. More...

By Andy Thomason. A sizable minority of colleges manage their investments according to “socially responsible” principles, according to the results of a new survey by the Commonfund Institute. More...

By Andy Thomason. Reviewer Suggests Female Researchers Recruit Male Co-Authors to Raise Paper’s Credibility. More...

By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Census Bureau will continue asking about college graduates’ areas of study in a major survey after it considered dropping the question, Science magazine reports. More...

By Andy Thomason. Yale University has made it easier for students to take a leave of absence for personal reasons, The Wall Street Journal reports. The change was prompted by concerns that students with mental-health problems were being burdened by strict rules for temporarily leaving the college. More...

By Andy Thomason. A bill introduced in Congress on Tuesday would forbid colleges that receive federal financial aid to require students to agree to mandatory arbitration clauses, which have been used by for-profit colleges to prevent students from suing them. More...

By Andy Thomason. A vocational college in Louisiana must pay out $35,000 for denying admission to an HIV-positive applicant, according to an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department, The Times-Picayune reports. Compass Career College, a proprietary institution, must change its policies to avoid discriminating against people with HIV, pay $30,000 to the applicant denied admission to its practical-nursing program, and pay a $5,000 fine to the federal government. More...

By Andy Thomason. A group of Democratic lawmakers is pushing the U.S. Department of Education to more frequently forgive the loan debt of students who attended colleges that engaged in “fraudulent activities.”
Five U.S. senators and a member of the House of Representatives wrote a letter to Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Monday, stating that the department should “take immediate action” to inform students eligible for debt relief — including those who attended the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges — of their options. More...