Shifting Focus of Publishers Signals Tough Times for Textbook Authors
Leading academic publishers are signing fewer textbook authors and instead channeling investments into digital courseware.
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WWF announces discovery of 157 new species in Southeast Asia
A bat which looks like *NSYNC's Lance Bass, a gibbon named for Luke Skywalker, and a toad which seems to have come "from Middle Earth," are among 157 new species discovered in the Greater Mekong Region last year, according to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund.
Robot dons gown in virtual graduation ceremony
A robot has been used to confer degrees on three students who were unable to attend their graduation ceremony.
Guess which state beats every other in campus free speech
North Carolina has more "green light" institutions than any other state.
Colleges look to be partners, not competitors
Four Southeast Minnesota colleges are working together to “regionalize” the delivery of higher education in the region.
Rutgers researchers learning how to use improv, other games to share their work with others
Person A is a time traveler from 300 years ago. Person B is expecting a phone call — and must explain how cellphones work before the time traveler accuses them of being a witch.
Israel-Palestine talk gets canceled amid ‘bias’ concerns
A Syracuse University senior says a planned dialogue about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was canceled after students protested the event.
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Trump clashes with Pelosi, Schumer in Oval Office meeting over border wall
President Donald Trump publicly clashed Tuesday with the top House and Senate Democrats over funding for the border wall and the threat of a government shutdown during an Oval Office meeting that was open to the press, a sign of what divided government in Washington may look like next year.
Ganging up on a student journalist?
LIU Post student government association demands that President Kimberly Cline and the other officials publicly apologize for berating a co-editor of the student newspaper for its coverage of anonymous pamphlets targeting Cline and others.
