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- Contemplating the death of Lyndon LaRouche and the future of his movement https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2019/02/15/essay-death-lyndon-larouche-and-future-his-movement 3 comments
- Do Professors Matter? http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/10/30/katopes 12 comments
- U.S. Push for Free Online Courses http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/29/ccplan 2 comments
- The role of politics in where students want to go to college https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2023/03/27/role-politics-where-students-want-go-college 105 comments politics
- Peer-review crisis creates problems for journals and scholars https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/06/13/peer-review-crisis-creates-problems-journals-and-scholars 3 comments science
- The UT Austin Liberty Institute? What’s That? Professors want to know more -- much more -- about a center dedicated to private enterprise and individual rights that has apparently been in the works for years. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/09/24/ut-austins-liberty-institute-whats-professors-ask 12 comments politics
- Biden to Extend Pause on Student Loan Payments | Inside Higher Ed https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2021/01/11/biden-extend-pause-student-loan-payments 43 comments politics
- Colleges want professors to stay mum on student COVID-19 cases https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/08/31/colleges-want-professors-stay-mum-student-covid-19-cases 7 comments privacy
- Darth DeVos strikes again in effort to screw DACA students and veterans https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/06/12/devos-rule-formally-limits-emergency-student-aid-grants 29 comments economy
- Contentious Choice for Student Borrower Advocate — Consumer groups say Trump administration's choice of industry executive for student loan ombudsman shows disregard for borrowers. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/19/trump-administration-names-industry-exec-student-loans-ombudsman 5 comments politics
- Idaho Republicans Asking Boise State to Abandon Inclusion http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/07/15/idaho-republicans-asking-boise-state-abandon-inclusion 10 comments politics
- Democratic Hopefuls -- Minus 1 -- Back Pell Grants in Prisons https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/06/21/presidential-hopefuls-get-behind-pell-grants-prisons 5 comments politics
- T&F reverses decision on Iranian authors https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/12/12/reversal-article-rejected-due-iran-sanctions 5 comments math
- An About-Face for House Science Committee https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/11/13/blue-wave-means-new-focus-house-climate-change-research-science-committee 6 comments politics
- VA Dealing With Backlog of GI Bill Benefits https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/10/16/va-dealing-backlog-gi-bill-benefits 5 comments politics
- Power Grab in Poland? Academics see ominous provisions in new higher ed law. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/08/02/academics-oppose-proposed-higher-education-law-poland 16 comments europe
- DeVos Lost $100 Million in Theranos Investment https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/05/04/devos-lost-100-million-theranos-investment 237 comments politics
- Uncovering Koch Role in Faculty Hires https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/05/01/koch-agreements-george-mason-gave-foundation-role-faculty-hiring-and-oversight 6 comments politics
- Mental Health Crisis for Grad Students: Study finds "strikingly high" rates of depression and anxiety, with many reporting little help or support from supervisors. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/03/06/new-study-says-graduate-students-mental-health-crisis 63 comments science
- Humanoid robot completes course in philosophy of love in what is purportedly a world first https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/12/21/robot-goes-college 197 comments philosophy
- Report: Justice Department will seek to sue colleges over affirmative action https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/08/01/report-justice-department-will-seek-sue-colleges-over-affirmative-action 23 comments politics
- Trinity College in Connecticut puts Johnny Eric Williams on leave over controversial comments about race https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/06/27/trinity-college-connecticut-puts-johnny-eric-williams-leave-over-controversial 14 comments politics
- Frustrated with Washington, scientists and academics jump into electoral politics https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/06/30/frustrated-washington-scientists-and-academics-jump-electoral-politics 8 comments politics
- Princeton professor who recently criticized Trump in a commencement speech at Hampshire College, cancels planned public speaking events, saying she's received death threats for her comments. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/06/01/princeton-professor-who-criticized-trump-cancels-events-saying-shes-received-death 83 comments politics
- Why did Fresno State cancel a search for a professorship named after the late Edward Said? https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/31/why-did-fresno-state-cancel-search-professorship-named-after-late-edward-said#.ws62fvu9k1c.reddit 3 comments politics
- Republican member of Congress says Pell Grants discourage marriages https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/22/republican-member-congress-says-pell-grants-discourage-marriages 2 comments politics
- Trump May Try to Kill AmeriCorps https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/02/18/trump-list-programs-kill-includes-americorps-neh-and-nea 117 comments politics
- New website seeks to register professors accused of liberal bias and 'anti-American values' https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/11/22/new-website-seeks-register-professors-accused-liberal-bias-and-anti-american-values%20(x-post%20/r/education) 12 comments politics
- Professor Dismissed for Insulting Turkey's President https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/06/20/professor-dismissed-insulting-turkeys-president 75 comments worldnews
- For the second year in a row, public colleges relied more on state funding and less on tuition revenue, reversing a recent trend. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/04/27/public-colleges-relied-less-tuition-2015?utm_content=buffer0f7ac&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=ihebuffer 9 comments politics
- Hillary Clinton pledges to outdo the Obama administration in cracking down on for-profits. But will her ties to the industry, including the $16.5 million Bill Clinton earned working for Laureate Education, influence her approach? https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/04/18/hillary-clintons-ties-profit-education-companies 17 comments politics
- McGraw-Hill destroys new poli-sci textbook over criticism that maps showing Palestinian loss of land are anti-Israel https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/08/mcgraw-hill-education-withdraws-textbook-maps-viewed-anti-israel#.vurakwvaoma.twitter 11 comments worldnews
- Free College Would Destroy Nation, Ben Carson Says https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/12/free-college-would-destroy-nation-ben-carson-says 44 comments politics
- "... why is there only one social role for those with Ph.D.s in philosophy – namely, to talk to other Ph.D.s in philosophy?" https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/01/13/essay-problems-philosophy-academe 343 comments philosophy
- Union Severs Ties to UNCF, Citing Koch Grant http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/07/11/union-severs-ties-uncf-citing-koch-grant#sthash.tqfvhihu.whxclpvx.dpbs 3 comments politics
- Arizona State University Police Arrest Professor for jaywalking http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/30/video-highlights-arizona-state-police-arrest-black-professor-critics-see-racial 9 comments politics
- Amazon restricts bringing textbooks across state lines http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/16/amazon-restricts-students-bringing-certain-textbook-rentals-across-state-lines 3 comments technology
- Republican professors give less egalitarian grades than Democratic professors, and relatively worse grades to black students vs. white students http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/05/20/study_finds_differences_in_republican_and_democratic_grading_patterns 33 comments science
- The great philosophical works have always been difficult technical tomes, pursuing arcane arguments in the service of grand metaphysical and epistemological conclusions. None are easy reading for laypersons, and few base their arguments on anthropology or sociology. http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2010/04/05/stanley?a=a 7 comments philosophy
- Harry Reid joins the RIAA http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/07/23/fileshare 14 comments reddit.com