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‘Deplorable’ NYU Prof on Leave
An NYU professor who used an anonymous Twitter account to criticize the university, trigger warnings, safe spaces and the ‘academic left’ is on paid leave days after his identity was revealed. What happened?
La. students facing big TOPS cuts in spring
Louisiana college students on TOPS will face a bigger price tag this spring when they feel the brunt of severe cuts to the scholarship program.
Competency-based degree program costs average around $4,500
As ever-increasing tuition rates at many colleges and universities are putting a college education out of reach for some, Texas A&M University-Commerce is developing a program that has helped students earn a degree at a cost comparable to a single year at some schools.
Suspicion has become Britain’s default setting. How did it come to this?
The ‘genuine v fake’ narrative – applied to child refugees, disabled people, anyone asking for help – not only erodes empathy, its goalposts are ever shifting
Vine’s dead. Is Twitter next?
Twitter announced plans on Thursday to kill off Vine, the short-form looping video app it acquired four years ago in an early effort to bring video to the social network.
Want to learn about aggregated energy deals? A university lesson
Earlier this month, a world-class university, the largest Level 1 trauma center in New England and a parking facility in the center of Boston’s Financial District came together to announce a landmark aggregated renewable energy deal
Scholars face global ‘crisis’ of attacks, report warns
Academics and students around the world face a “crisis” of assaults and persecution that appears to be getting worse, an international network has warned.
The secret of how life on Earth began
Today life has conquered every square inch of Earth, but when the planet formed it was a dead rock. How did life get started?
UCSF will outsource dozens of tech jobs to India
UCSF plans to lay off dozens of tech workers and outsource about a fifth of its information technology systems jobs to India — a move the university says will save it about $30 million over five years.
