A medical school will stop using race in admissions; inflation erodes nearly all faculty pay gains; worries over the fate of the monograph; and more.
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By Alexander C. Kafka

The institutions are upgrading learning platforms, bargaining with vendors, trading course offerings, and collecting and analyzing vast data that could change how they teach. PREMIUM

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Affirmative Action
By Nell Gluckman

Texas Tech University’s Health Science Center doesn’t think its admissions policy broke the law. But it wanted to resolve a case opened more than a decade ago.

Compensation
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By Audrey Williams June

In its annual faculty-compensation report, the American Association of University Professors found, among other things, that inflation eroded nearly all the gains in pay.

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Government
By Eric Kelderman

Nationally, state appropriations per student remained essentially flat from the 2017 to 2018 fiscal years, said the “State Higher Education Finance” report.

Finance
By Terry Nguyen

A report on online education anticipates growing competition among institutions and also among third-party course providers.

Students
By Michael Vasquez and Dan Bauman

More than 500,000 students have been displaced in the past five years, many of them working adults who had hoped that college would be their path to the middle class.

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The new president of the Association of University Presses talks about the challenges facing academic publishing and what they mean for first-time authors.

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