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Stanford sustainability school faces pushback for potentially taking oil money
Stanford University’s new Doerr School of Sustainability has recently faced backlash for being open to fossil fuel company donations. Read more
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Direct Admissions Takes Off
At West Texas A&M, at Minnesota’s colleges and with the Common App, colleges are dropping applications as a requirement to be admitted. Read more
Students protest Christian university for upholding its religious values
Controversy erupted at Anderson University in Anderson, South Carolina, after the university decided not to renew the contract of a queer professor. Read more
Does attending your college increase students’ chances of getting hired?
A recent report shows that hiring managers care about which higher ed institution potential employees attended. Read more
Gender activists push to bar anthropologists from identifying human remains as ‘male’ or ‘female’
As soon as ancient human remains are excavated, archaeologists begin the work of determining a number of traits about the individual, including age, race and gender. Read more
Microsoft launches simulator to train drone AI systems
Microsoft has launched a platform to train the artificial intelligence (AI) systems of autonomous aircraft. Read more
The metaverse: Are colleges really light years away from reaching it?
Virtual lectures are nice, but becoming far more interactive over the next 5-10 years should be the goal for higher ed leaders. Read more
Dog names are racist, according to scholars
Academics recently applauded a Social Psychology Quarterly study purporting to show a disparity in the time dogs were adopted based on racial associations with the animals’ names. Read more
US schools remain highly segregated by race and class, analysis shows
More than a third of students in the US attended schools in which over three-quarters of students accounted for one race or ethnicity Read more
Otterbein, Antioch U Team Up to Create National System
The private nonprofit Ohio institutions are partnering to create a new national university system. Leaders envision a collaborative system with pooled resources and are seeking other partners. Read more
