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Community colleges continue to see a drop in academic staffing

Dec 21, 2022
It's often hard for community colleges to recruit instructors because of competition from other job opportunities that pay more.
Community colleges often compete for faculty with four-year universities, which usually can offer higher wages, lighter teaching workloads and more full-time jobs. 
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Can pandemic relief money help schools bring kids up to speed academically?

Oct 26, 2022
National reading and math scores are way down. But school leaders say it can be hard to put all that money toward instruction.
School districts have until September 2024 to spend the last of the $190 billion allocated to them in COVID relief funds.
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These academics want to lead the way to flying less

Jan 1, 2020
Now they want their institutions to lend some support.
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The numbers for October 23, 2014

Oct 23, 2014
Thousands of UNC students took fake classes for good grades. Let's do the numbers.

Yes, Facebook is sucking your soul

Jul 17, 2014
Just in case you needed social science to prove it.

Korean scholars rank as the most valuable

Aug 12, 2013
A new study says that academics from South Korea are the most commercially valuable in the world.