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How Science-Literate Are You?

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Grand Valley State University Lawrence Technological University Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and... California State University, East Bay Sam Houston State University Sam Houston State University Carnegie Mellon University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil... University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil... University of Minnesota, Morris University of Tennessee Rutgers… → Read More

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Most conversations about college reform feature broad ideas. But what can people and institutions do, realistically, to make college a better experience? How does college actually work? Welcome to another edition of The Chronicle Book Club. This round, we’re reading How College Works, a book about small changes professors, administrators, and institutions can make to dramatically improve the student… → Read More

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Among the victims of Thursday’s Malaysia Airlines disaster were passengers traveling to an AIDS-research conference in Australia. One victim was Joep Lange, head of the department of global health at the University of Amsterdam and one of the field’s most prominent members. People in the community have been reacting to the loss on social media and in the news media. * Vox ran a piece detailing Mr.… → Read More

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Georgia State University School of Public ... Georgia State University School of Public ... The University of the West Indies (UWI) University of Nevada, Las Vegas West Virginia University Reed College of M... West Virginia Northern Community College Saba University School of Medicine Bridgewater State University University of Kansas Medical Center Resear... Irvine Valley College Cumberland… → Read More

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University of Iowa College of Public Healt... The University of Chicago Booth School of ... University of Hawaii Maui College Anderson University DePaul University DePaul University Independent College Bookstore Association ... North Greenville University North Central Missouri College The Australian National University Comanche Nation College Sierra Canyon School University of South Florida… → Read More

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Kentucky Community & Technical College Sys... University of Iowa College of Public Healt... The College of Idaho United States Institute of Peace The Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Nortwestern State University University of Missouri - Kansas City Education Finance Council Universities Space Research Association Utah State University DePaul University DePaul University Independent College… → Read More

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Southeastern Community College Kentucky Community & Technical College Sys... University of Iowa College of Public Healt... The College of Idaho United States Institute of Peace The American University of Rome North Country Community College The Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Nortwestern State University University of Missouri - Kansas City Education Finance Council Universities Space… → Read More

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The Chronicle Book Club is a work in progress! As promised, here is an update on author involvement and conversation guidelines. The authors of The Student Loan Mess, Joel and Eric Best, have agreed to write our weekly discussion posts. They are also open to participating in other ways. If you have an idea for how authors can be involved in the club, now or in the future, please post it to the comments… → Read More

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Southeastern Community College University of Pennsylvania, Penn Humanitie... Florida Agricultural and Mechanical Univer... Arkansas Tech University Indiana University Bloomington Libraries The College of Idaho Robert C. Byrd Institute Robert C. Byrd Institute University of Balamand United States Institute of Peace New England Institute of Technology The American University of Rome North… → Read More

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[Updated (5/28/2014, 12:34 a.m.) with a response from Olin College.] Massachusetts’ Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering is hemorrhaging money, according to the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. The 340-student college, which has received international attention for its initial commitment to charging no tuition, its strong faculty, and its graduation rates, spent nearly $100-million… → Read More

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The Chronicle Book Club is back this summer, reading The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem, by Joel and Eric Best. The book is highly readable look at the student-debt bubble, a subject no doubt of personal interest to many of you. You can get a sense of the book by reading this blog post the authors wrote in March. You might want to purchase a copy as soon… → Read More

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Southeastern Community College Northern Michigan University The Paul H . Nitze School of Advanced Inte... University of Alaska Fairbanks Math in a C... Texas A&M University - Texarkana University of Georgia National Center for State Courts State Council of Higher Education for Virg... University of Pennsylvania, Penn Humanitie... Florida Agricultural and Mechanical Univer... Arkansas Tech… → Read More

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Michigan State University Northern Michigan University The Paul H . Nitze School of Advanced Inte... University of Alaska Fairbanks Math in a C... Texas A&M University - Texarkana University of Georgia National Center for State Courts State Council of Higher Education for Virg... University of Pennsylvania, Penn Humanitie... Florida Agricultural and Mechanical Univer... Arkansas Tech University Indiana… → Read More

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The long-struggling Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C., reached a final agreement on Thursday to be taken over by George Washington University and the National Gallery of Art, the Washington Business Journal reported. Under the deal, which finalizes a plan announced in February, the university will control the Corcoran College of Art and Design; Corcoran’s historic Beaux-Arts building,… → Read More

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Edwin Givens, a former general counsel and chief of staff at South Carolina State University, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges connected with a kickback scheme, The Post and Courier reported. A judge will sentence Mr. Givens at a later date. The U.S. attorney’s office recommended six months’ probation. Investigators uncovered the kickback scheme through a wiretapped conversation between Mr.… → Read More

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Georgia State University School of Public ... North Central Texas Community College University of Florida University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Baptist Memorial College of Health Science... Penn State Hershey State College Regional ... Amarillo College Belmont College California State Polytechnic University, P... The American University in the Emirates (A... Boise State University, Albertsons… → Read More

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Members of New York University’s Students for Justice in Palestine on Thursday served 2,000 undergraduate with fake eviction notices, CBS New York reported. The fliers were slipped under doors in the school’s Palladium and Lafayette residence halls. They denounced the demolishing of Palestinian homes by Israel and indicated “this is not a real eviction notice” at the bottom. “Eviction notices are… → Read More

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IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue Universit... Nebraska's Coordinating Commission for Pos... Carlos Albizu University Middle Tennessee State University Il.isag.vik College Eastern Iowa Community Colleges The University of Texas System University of Alabama Guilford Technical Community College Texas A&M Health Science Center College of... Delaware Technical Community College Association of… → Read More

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In 1976 The New Yorker published a cartoon by Saul Steinberg titled “View of the World From Ninth Avenue.” It depicted Manhattan’s Ninth, 10th, and 11th Avenues as covering more than half the world. Just across the Hudson River sat a sliver of land called “Jersey.” Adjacent to Jersey was a larger rectangle of land, filling perhaps a sixth of the page and representing the remainder of the United States.… → Read More