Drop in humanities degrees The number of undergraduates receiving humanities degrees is dropping, according to Insider Higher Ed. A study conducted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences reported that between the years 2012 and 2014, the number of students to receive “core” humanities degrees ...
Video released of Princeton professor’s arrest The Princeton, NJ Police Department released a video Feb. 11 showing the arrest of a black Princeton professor, Imani Perry, for speeding and having several unpaid parking tickets on her record, according to the New York Times. Perry described her arrest ...
Researchers propose aberrant genes as cure for ALS After six years studying amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable neurodegenerative disease, a team of five University faculty members received a $1.8 million research grant from the ALS Finding a Cure Foundation this fall. They will use this grant ...
Updated Jan. 21 at 10:45 a.m. Abbott “Tom” Gleason, professor emeritus of history and Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs faculty member, is remembered by friends and colleagues as a man of many talents who touched the lives of countless colleagues and students. The definition ...
A March 2-3 Herald poll showed that first-generation students experience greater feelings of inadequacy than their peers in a variety of areas. Approximately 54 percent of first-generation students indicated they felt inadequate about their academic ability, compared to just 29 percent of other respondents. ...
About 50 students and alums took advantage of their rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 by sending requests for personal records to the Office of Admission and the Office of the Registrar this academic year, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. In a typical year, only ...
The University offered admission to just under 8.5 percent of applicants to the class of 2019, breaking last year’s record-low acceptance rate of 8.6 percent, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. Out of the 30,397 students who applied — the second largest pool in University history — 2,580 ...
“Our criminal justice system is a bias and a broken system,” said Chris Burbank, chief of police at the Salt Lake City Police Department, during a panel entitled “Police Profiling: Causes and Consequences” Tuesday evening. About 40 community members gathered to hear three panelists speak about ...
Freezing cold temperatures and large accumulations of snow this semester have affected a number of University buildings, including Graduate Center E, Diman House and T.F. Green — the building that houses the Production Workshop. In January alone there were 110 snow-related issues reported to the Department ...
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