Students call out California Dems for homelessness crisis
California is home to the largest homeless population in the country with more than 120,000 people on the streets and counting.
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Wake Forest to cancel classes for ‘Inclusive Teaching Conference’
Wake Forest University will cancel classes for one day later this spring semester so professors can attend a diversity and inclusivity training at the private institution.
Facebook adds more ad tracking controls in the UK
Facebook has launched a new tool that lets people see which apps, businesses and websites are sharing their information with the social network.
Another Art School Merger
The Watkins College of Art will merge with Belmont University later this year, joining a growing list of tiny colleges, particularly in the arts, that struggled to go it alone.
The perils confronting college study-abroad programs
A novel, potentially lethal virus in China. Bush fires in Australia. Political protests in Hong Kong.
Harvard chemistry chair arrested over China ties
Nanotechnology innovator charged over alleged links to Chinese state-run academic talent programme, in expanding federal crackdown
Confucius Institute at Mizzou closes after pressure from Washington
The University of Missouri is the most recent American university to shutter its Confucius Institute.
‘Fixing Science’ conference called ‘dangerous’ for discussing problems with faculty research
The National Association of Scholars is facing accusations of harboring a “white supremacy agenda” and of being “dangerous” over the group’s upcoming conference that will explore how a massive amount of scientific findings published in peer-reviewed journals cannot be reproduced.
Lack of education, a way out of poverty, could ‘kill rural America’
The squeals of elementary students at recess and the occasional hiss of a tractor-trailer’s tires on the main drag serve as the only soundtrack as a quartet of high school students head for some fun away from school.
Growing Student Debt Burden for Parents
With federal Parent PLUS loans now accounting for a quarter of borrowing for undergraduates, new data reinforce concern about parents' ability to repay the loans.
