A study finds that the institutions, trying to offset drops in state support, are using out-of-state recruiting practices biased against low-income and minority students in their own states.
What the admissions-bribery scandal reveals about parenting toward a narrow definition of success in an anxious age.
Those who decide who gets in are powerful, even if they are not to blame.
Dozens of people, including famous actors, college coaches, and a university administrator, have been charged by federal prosecutors for their alleged roles in an admissions-bribery scheme involving Yale, Stanford, and other elite institutions.
In the scandal over admissions fraud, some of angriest voices are those of advocates for people with learning disabilities.
Some made millions in bribes by using such slots as a commodity in an arbitrage scheme.
The rich and powerful have been buying spots at elite institutions for years.
They’re alive, despite being rebutted, criticized, and cast out of the disciplines from which they came!
For academics with disabilities, having to self-advocate for even basic accommodations is a daily frustration.
Alan B. Krueger, a titan in the field, died by suicide last weekend. As colleagues mourned, they also noted an academic culture that makes disclosing mental illness difficult.
Two current students, and a former one, say they faced bias. The accusations come only two months after controversy over treatment of Asian students in another program.
Nurturing junior scholars of color is key to their careers, but also to the insights they may bring to HIV-prevention efforts. It’s a model, funders and researchers say, for work in other fields.
In the span of three months, the University of Pennsylvania created a new framework for scheduling appointments.
In the face of a student mental-health crisis, a few colleges are putting wellness into the curriculum.
How did we decide that professors don’t deserve job security or a decent salary?
Social media has made scholars impatient, vicious, and dull.
Women on Rowan University’s cross-county and track-and-field teams had complained for years about subtle sexism, and a ban on sports bras without shirts was a final insult. Now they say they’re still being treated like the problem.
In STEM fields, students with an unplanned pregnancy need mentors who will guide rather than dictate the way forward.
Whether or not you have the leverage of a second job offer, ask your potential department for what you deserve (within reason).
It turns out online teaching and learning isn’t inherently better or worse than the face-to-face variety — just different.
Whether to lead your department is a question that every faculty member must answer. Here are some factors to help you make the call.
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Browse the data by state, sector, and Carnegie classification, and break out salaries by institution, rank, and gender.
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