Seeking Same-Race Roommates
Minority student at Pitzer advertised for nonwhite roommate.
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Lost Cause No Longer
In 2005, a court barred Vanderbilt from removing "Confederate" from the facade of a building, citing the terms of a gift.
Quality and Noncollege Learning
Education Department announces eight winning partnerships in experiment to open federal aid to alternative providers, with a possibly influential new way of assuring academic quality.
Dorm Décor Rorschach Test
After photos of U of Mississippi students' room go viral, debate follows on just how fancy a student residence should be.
More Faculty Diversity, Not on Tenure Track
Colleges hire more minority and female professors, but most jobs filled are adjunct, not tenure track, study finds.
NLRB: Graduate Students at Private Universities May Unionize
Federal labor board overturns ruling that denied collective bargaining rights to many teaching and research assistants.
Judge: Academic Freedom Doesn’t Bar Campus Carry
Ruling denies injunction professors sought to block new Texas law.
Decision Time
Study of tens of thousands of college students finds that those who were open to change their major were more likely to graduate than those who decided right away.
More Drama for Ashford
Ashford University cries foul on veterans' agency and California for meddling in Iowa's decision to yank the for-profit's GI Bill eligibility, and newly released emails show an Iowa official shared that view.
When Millions Pledged Never Materialize
A medical school building keeps its name at Marian University in Indianapolis, even after the man it's named for can't fulfill a $48 million pledge.
