[ad_1] Mariama Diallo was walking the streets of New York City when she ran into a former professor of hers — a college “master” — from when she was an undergraduate at Yale University. Back then, the term “master” was a title used for the heads of residential colleges. Although Yale did away with the…
[ad_1] In October 2020, Simmons University announced an unusual deal. It would offer undergraduate degrees online with the help of the prominent online-program manager 2U. The attention on online undergraduate education wasn’t novel — as of fall 2019, about 15 percent of undergraduate students took their classes fully online. But the partnership was: Simmons, in…
[ad_1] Jessica Scull had just been accepted to Columbia University as a transfer student when she met the companion who would become a crucial source of strength in her life: a gray and white cat named Smokey. Scull, who had recently been diagnosed with ADHD, anxiety, and major depression when she adopted him, in May…
[ad_1] Nothing seemed amiss to McKenna Schramm when Ohio Valley University recruited her to run track. The campus tour had all the standard trappings: a walk-through of the dorms, a stop at the cafeteria, and a visit to the campus chapel. The admissions letter, dated January 8, 2020, looked a lot like the ones she’d…
[ad_1] The University of Illinois system’s Board of Trustees has fired a tenured professor who was accused of sexually assaulting one of his graduate students and behaving inappropriately with five others. The trustees voted unanimously on Thursday to revoke the tenure of Paul A. Schewe, an associate professor of criminology at the University of Illinois…
[ad_1] A job posting at the University of California at Los Angeles drew harsh criticism from academics over the weekend for asking applicants to work on a “without salary basis.” Though the posting has since been taken down, speculation has persisted about whether its existence was the result of bureaucratic opacity, academe’s penchant for exploiting…
[ad_1] A California lawmaker is attempting to blunt efforts by other states to restrict gender-affirming care for youth with legislation that would protect from legal sanction transgender children who travel there for treatment and the clinicians who assist them. Sen. Scott Wiener A bill proposed by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D) would bar enforcement of civil…
[ad_1] The study covered in this summary was published in researchsquare.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways Incomplete device endothelialization (IDE) is common in the 6 months after a successful left atrial appendage (LAA) closure procedure, especially in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), larger LAA ostial diameter, and larger…
[ad_1] Exposure to shift work appears to influence the timing of menopause onset in both directions, new data suggest. Among nearly 4000 Canadian women surveyed, one in five reported exposure to shift work — that is, outside of the usual daytime business hours — at some point in their lives. After adjustment for confounders, rotating…
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Russia has told its academics to avoid scientific conferences abroad this year, the science and higher education ministry said on Monday, as Moscow finds itself increasingly isolated over its military campaign in Ukraine. The ministry said it had also decided to suspend the indexation of work by Russian scholars in international databases…