How Minn.’s private colleges are expanding their reach
Growing up in Worthington, Oliver Wolyniec first heard about Carleton College from some close family friends who had gone there themselves.
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A New Home for AI: The Library
Artificial intelligence laboratories have been cropping up with increasing frequency on campuses in recent years.
UCL to launch open-access megajournal
UCL is to launch an open-access megajournal to contend with the likes of Plos One and Scientific Reports as the landscape of scholarly publishing moves increasingly online.
Trump Russia: Bannon ‘ordered to testify to grand jury’
Steve Bannon, former chief strategist to US President Donald Trump, has been summoned to testify before a grand jury, US media report.
Warming Signs: How Diminished Snow Cover Puts Species in Peril
As the world warms, snow cover has been diminishing from the Alps to the Rockies.
Columbia U. affiliate’s financial aid exec took bribes
A former official at Columbia University’s Teachers College pocketed at least $350,000 by carrying out a decades-long scheme that dished out hundreds of thousands of dollars in financial aid in exchange for kickbacks from three students, authorities said Thursday.
Fla. Senate says yes to more help for college students
The Florida Senate on Thursday voted unanimously to permanently expand Bright Futures merit scholarships for some 94,000 university and college students.
Malta’s ‘American’ university fires nearly all its staff
It’s not every day that a university fires nearly all of its faculty. But that’s what happened at the American University of Malta, a start-up institution operated by a Jordanian construction and tourism company without a track record in higher education.
Law Schools under the microscope
The ABA has publicly posted reports on the accreditation status of more than 5 percent of the law schools it approves in the last 18 months, providing a window into the continued aftereffects of the law school bubble.
Google app matches your face to a famous painting
Are you more of a Botticelli or a Van Gogh?
