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New York is now allowing hemp farmers and processors to apply for conditional licenses to cultivate, manufacture, and distribute cannabis for the state’s adult-use market. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed New York’s adult-use cannabis legalization bill into law in March 2021, but throughout the rest of his time in office, he made little headway to…

“And I thought, oh my God, yes, what if I got naked or almost naked on top of it?” Stogner said. “This will be hilarious. Just for our own fun. I didn’t have any grand schemes with it. But fuck it, this will be fun.” In February, the video turned into a now-viral campaign ad…

This gift extends the powerful partnership between the University and SAS Big data propels the modern world. Thanks to the generosity of analytics leader SAS, Clemson students, faculty and approved staff can harness the power of big data with SAS® software to create meaningful change. SAS has gifted Clemson $3.3 million in licensing for teaching…

Culture war battles have long been fought in colleges and K-12 schools alike, with ideological opponents clashing over free speech, academic freedom and even the politics of fried chicken chains. But a renewed battle over books has some in higher education worried about students’ college readiness as school boards across the U.S. remove challenging texts…

“Data” is a four-letter word in some quarters of higher education, even as many people call for colleges and universities to get better at using data and analytics to support institutional decision making. Plenty of academics equate discussions about data with an overemphasis on efficiency or productivity or accountability, and many worry that college leaders…

Source: Gotham / Getty Kanye West is venturing into the world of with his new project Donda Academy. According to the school’s website, Ye hopes to disrupt the world of education by “finding the intersection between faith and the innovation of the future.”  It comes as no surprise given his recent deep dive into the…

Hari Sreenivasan: With Black History Month underway, there are questions about how new restrictions on diversity education in some states may play out. According to an analysis by Education Week; since last year, 37 states have introduced or passed legislation that puts constraints on what can be taught about racism, sexism and inequality Nadra Nittle,…

As journalists, we often say that we want to report the news, not be the news. We are making an exception today to announce that Inside Higher Ed has been acquired by Times Higher Education (THE), the world’s leading provider of higher education news, data and insights. We are thrilled to be officially joining forces…

A Japanese woman is giving up her child and suing her sperm donor after she learned he lied about his ethnicity and educational background. The woman, a Tokyo resident in her 30s, shares a child with her husband and was seeking to have a second child. But after learning her partner had a hereditary disease,…

Before Dr. Roland Mitchell, dean for LSU’s College of Human Sciences & Education (LSU CHSE), became an administrator, he worked on campus as an instructor while he finished his dissertation. He picked an inauspicious time to arrive.  “I moved the week of Katrina,” he recalled. “There were all of these narratives about Black folks from…