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Trustees seemed paralyzed by the notion that changing interim leaders was somehow worse than all the damage John Engler was doing. PREMIUM

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His time as interim president of Michigan State University compounded the scandal left by Larry Nassar, a sports doctor who sexually abused hundreds of women and girls. Three incidents, in particular, hastened his ouster.

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The surveys are rife with bias, and educational and legal considerations are upping the pressure to change them and maybe even eliminate them. PREMIUM

 

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By Lindsay Ellis
 

The previously unreported connections are the latest in a longstanding series of ties between the president and the Christian university in Virginia.

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By splitting each class into four chunks, a Harvard postdoc makes sure he dedicates a half-hour to active-learning strategies.

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Controversy over the removal of the Silent Sam statue serves as a reminder that it is not a college’s duty to protect people from ideas they find offensive or distasteful.

 

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