DEI Program Director Thomas Pierce told Kloosterman that she 'could not take the Bible or her religious beliefs to work,' and called her 'evil' for adhering to Christian beliefs. Read more

Universities in England and Wales are doubling or tripling their hardship funds in anticipation of “unprecedented” demand from students struggling with the cost of living, amid fears of widespread dropouts unless ministers offer more support. Read more

At a launch event at Draper University in San Mateo, California, a start-up revealed how its flying car hopes to take off. Read more

Lingering free speech concerns from past events at Yale Law School recently prompted a conservative judge to call for his colleagues to avoid hiring graduates as clerks. Read more

Dozens of Georgetown University (GU) students walked out of Gaston Hall during Vice President Mike Pence’s speech Wednesday night. Read more

Biomedical and life sciences publisher says it wants to focus reviewers’ attention on content of research Read more

A nonprofit dedicated to free speech and civil liberties sent letters to twelve universities which demanded that they change their free speech policies to protect student voices. Read more

Higher education has benefits ranging from career development to skill building to network development—but it certainly can come at a high cost. The average cost of college in the U.S. is more than $35,000 per year, according to the Education Data Initiative. And these students average about $37,000 in student loan debt. Read more

Ten miles off the coast of Aberdeen in Scotland, five turbines tower over the North Sea. Read more

Preliminary data from the NSF indicate that COVID-19 hit Ph.D. production hard in 2021, but job-placement data are surprisingly rosy—just not in academe. Read more