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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 6, 20241 min read
How to lose friends and influence nobody
Stanford students who occupied the president's office were arrested within a few hours and will be suspended.
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 7, 20231 min read
'Data science' closes STEM doors, professors warn
"Data science" classes don't prepare students for college-level math, science or engineering courses, say University of California...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 23, 20223 min read
Mastering newspeak at Stanford
Will Stanford continue to award master's degrees? Will my daughter's major -- American Studies -- need a new name? Stanford's IT...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 3, 20222 min read
Suicidal students: What can universities do?
Yale discriminates against students with mental-health issues, according to a lawsuit filed this week, reports William Wan in the...
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