Marc Edwards, a professor of civil engineering at Virginia Tech, has become something of a folk hero for his role in identifying lead in the city’s water. But he says he takes no pleasure in the attention. Instead he worries that university research is “no longer deserving of the public trust.”
The former New York City mayor and rumored presidential hopeful says his record-setting donation will be used to provide financial aid for low- and middle-income students.
The long-awaited draft rules would replace the Obama administration’s guidance, which had called for more aggressive enforcement of the 1972 law mandating gender equity among colleges that accept federal money.
Seamus Hughes was reading Dragons Love Tacos when he realized he could prove the Justice Department had secretly charged the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Remedial classes, repeated courses, and course withdrawals signal trouble for many students. Yet for some, that pattern actually predicts greater success. The key is looking at the student profile as a whole, a new study suggests.
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