The excitement of entering a new academic year for university and college students can be palpable and filled with hope. But the start of the school year in post-secondary settings also has a shadow side, known as the red ...
Social Sciences
Oct 3, 2023
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Ten years after a federal law required colleges and universities to offer sexual assault prevention programming to students, only about half of them are doing it.
Social Sciences
Aug 25, 2023
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When William A. Smith, a scholar of education and culture, introduced the term "racial battle fatigue" in 2003, he used it to describe the cumulative effects of racial hostility that Black people—specifically faculty and ...
Social Sciences
Jan 12, 2023
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People tend to laugh when I tell them that my job after college was catching fish out of the Hudson River. As someone who lacks the particular brand of outdoorsy-ness fitting to this job, it seems like an unlikely position ...
Ecology
Nov 3, 2022
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The opportunity to make a small charitable donation on a store owner's nickel may be just the encouragement shoppers need to forgo toting their goods home in a single-use plastic bag, new research suggests.
Economics & Business
Nov 29, 2021
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A new study released by a team of researchers in the Department of Education Reform indicates that students who visited the University of Arkansas on multiple field trips as eighth graders began to prepare for college, possibly ...
Education
Feb 24, 2021
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Careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are one of the fastest-growing areas of work in the United States, yet racial and gender disparities remain in STEM occupations.
Social Sciences
Dec 8, 2020
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Many colleges are welcoming students back for in-person learning and dormitory living this fall semester. Looming over everything: Campuses could shut back down at any time.
Education
Aug 19, 2020
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The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports on a study following a four year effort to change the stigma of mental illness at Indiana University, which drew the attention of students ...
Education
Apr 14, 2020
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When it comes to improving the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, one Penn State Harrisburg researcher suggests taking the long view. As a geologist, Jennifer Sliko, assistant teaching professor of earth and geosciences in the ...
Environment
Mar 27, 2019
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