Google drops plans for Berlin campus after protests
Google has dropped plans to open a large campus in a trendy district of Berlin that were strongly opposed by local campaigners.
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Presidential Spouses Behaving Badly
Wisconsin Whitewater is latest university to find a presidential spouse can become a campus liability. Even on campuses without controversies, partners face heightened scrutiny.
China’s new booze university wants to change how Americans drink
China’s mission to protect its economy now includes a college where the students study booze.
Petition supporting Clarence Thomas gets 10 times more signatures than opposition
A Change.org petition calls for the Savannah College of Art and Design to keep the name of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on one of its buildings.
‘Explosive devices’ sent to Hillary Clinton and Obama
Suspected explosive devices were sent to former US President Barack Obama, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and other top Democrats, officials say.
Without changing human diets, it’s impossible to halt global warming
The global food system’s environmental impact is large and growing.
Quality questions in US shift towards competency-based assessment
Trump administration plans to allow universities to attract federal funding for students based not on the amount of time they spend studying but on measurements of their ability
Google launching its own computer science courses on campuses
Early next year, twenty students will have the opportunity to study machine learning for 10 weeks with Google engineers, college professors and coaches—free of charge.
Students’ view of PhD’s value drops as course progresses
Satisfaction with postgraduate research declines significantly over course of programme, survey reveals
Prof lectures about ‘honorary whites’
Amherst American Studies professor Pawan H. Dhingra lectured on the belief that there are three racial categories: whites, "honorary whites," and "collective blacks."
