Reviewers change their mind after hearing from ‘peers’
Harvard experiment finds nearly half of academics amended their assessment of a research application after seeing randomly generated ‘expert scores’
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Foreign interference? Berkeley student gov ponders letting non-citizens vote
UC Berkeley's student government held a forum pertainng to an effort to add onto a 2020 ballot non-citizen voting for Berkeley city elections.
A Mich. mom skipped her college graduation to see her son graduate. A surprise awaited her
A mother and son in Michigan are celebrating a milestone together.
Full Shutdown
Johns Hopkins students are refusing to leave administration building until officials cancel plans to form an armed police force. Activists are worried about the potential for racial profiling.
California mulls crackdown on online partnerships
Bills targeting for-profit institutions in California would prohibit tuition-sharing deals -- a sign of growing political scrutiny of the role of online program management companies.
More than 400 colleges are still accepting students for the fall — and many offer financial aid
Colleges may find themselves with space available because they overestimated the amount of applications
Not here legally? UMN has a scholarship for that
The University of Minnesota offers scholarships to illegal immigrants
Europe ‘losing ground’ to US and China on AI research
Leading professor who backs creation of ‘Cern for AI’ calls lack of decisive government action ‘disturbing’
Discount rates hit record highs
For first time, rates for freshmen at private colleges top 50 percent.
Arrested Texas student tries, and fails, to kick police off campus
Texas State's student government voted down a resolution calling for the dissolution of the school's police.
