The growing loan burden for parents of College students
Parents are taking out bigger loans to pay for their children's college education, a new report finds, and having worse outcomes repaying that debt.
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New MacBook Air and Mac mini show the Apple Tax on storage lives on
When Apple announced the first new versions of its MacBook Air laptop and Mac mini desktop in years, it left the bad news behind its site’s “Buy” buttons: a scant storage allocation that’s expensive to upgrade.
New horse coat color pattern called ‘ýruskjóttur’ discovered in Iceland
Horses have been in Iceland since the time of the Vikings -- and thanks to the country's strict laws, they've been purebred for over 1,000 years.
Former Dem mayor prof assigns essay about ‘offensive’ character, ‘Donald Rump’
UC Santa Cruz professor and former Democrat mayor Ryan Coonerty assigned his constitutional law students an essay prompt on “Donald Rump,” who “has been known to target women, minorities, and the disabled.”
Code Switch
A coding boot camp and a liberal arts university share instructors and accreditation to create a new computer science degree, aimed at making graduates of both institutions more employable.
DeVos paints doomsday student debt landscape
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos sounded the alarm on the state of higher education in a doomsday speech on the student debt crisis and vowed to use the tools at her disposal to make changes.
Scammers target UK students with fake tax refund emails
Thousands of university students have been targeted with fake tax refund emails in an attempt to steal their banking and personal details, HM Revenue and Customs has said.
Did Rice Scholar Assist in Banned Research?
University to investigate whether a physics and bioengineering professor was involved in a banned genome-editing procedure that allegedly produced the world's first genetically edited babies.
UMass: Qualified faculty candidates must be ‘appropriately diverse’
The University of Massachusetts-Amherst faculty hiring guide encourages hiring committees not to consider "protected characteristics" of applicants.
Air taxis — why they’re no longer pie in the sky
Imagine a taxi service that picked you up (into the sky) and then dropped you off after an exciting journey, completely free of road works and traffic lights.
