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Bill Ackman's celebrity academic wife Neri Oxman's dissertation is marred by plagiarism
Bill Ackman used plagiarism charges in pushing to remove Harvard's president, Claudine Gay. But new…
Katherine Long,Jack Newsham
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Constantly pretending your boss's dumb jokes are funny can lead to emotional exhaustion and lower job satisfaction, academics found
Bosses who make too many jokes may unintentionally pressure employees to pretend to laugh or have a…
Sawdah Bhaimiya
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The pressure to land a stellar internship as a college student is so high. I've considered skipping class for interviews and spent hours applying to at least 36 internships.
As a student at Vanderbilt University, the writer struggled to get a summer internship — over a yea…
Ilana Drake
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IIT Kharagpur cuts power every day to compel stressed students to move out of their dorms for tea, coffee breaks
Earlier this year, a 20-year-old student living at the IIT-B campus and a son of a faculty membe…
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University of Florida faculty felt pressure to delete COVID-19 data that conflicted with the state's stance: 'There was more silencing and pressure coming from above. The Big Above.'
The report also said employees were told "not to criticize the Governor of Florida or UF policies r…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Fear, self-loathing and stress affect students appearing for competitive exams
Growing competition and pressure of performance is turning Indian students into victims of stress. …
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Leaked memo: Microsoft is offering 12 weeks paid leave for parents as schools remain closed for the academic year
The company declined to provide more information about for which positions it's still hiring, and w…
Ashley Stewart
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Notre Dame student sues school, claims academic tutor pressured him to have sex with her daughter
"Defendant Jane Roe has used her position and employment at the University of Notre Dame du Lac to …
Abby Jackson
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Trump's 'maximum pressure' on Iran is at risk of backfiring - here's how to fix it
Tehran's internet shut down cost $1.5 billion and was part of a violent crackdown that cost 200 liv…
Shahed Ghoreishi
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Facebook and Instagram are creating teams to study bias on their platforms as they face increased pressure to address racial disparities
Facebook and Instagram have both previously limited efforts to study racial disparities, according …
Tyler Sonnemaker
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As Trump pressures schools to reopen, California's 2 largest school districts say they're going to start online only in the fall
"The skyrocketing infection rates of the past few weeks make it clear the pandemic is not under con…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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How an academic specialist in human memory created a chat app that's helping companies fight harassment and discrimination
Initially, Shaw thought they might work on an application that could assist people to better rememb…
Troy Wolverton
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The Trump administration has dropped its new international student visa rule after pressure from Facebook, Google, and other big tech companies
The rule was met with outcry from universities preparing for remote instruction amid the COVID-19 p…
Aaron Holmes
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Trump touts 'maximum pressure' against North Korea in State of the Union address
Detracting from the traditional hawkish and dovish rhetoric towards the Korean peninsula, Cha advoc…
David Choi
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Amazon investors are cranking up the pressure on Jeff Bezos to stop selling facial recognition tech to government agencies
Shareholders have little evidence our Company is effectively restricting the use of Rekognition to …
Jake Kanter,Jake Kanter
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Oxford University is giving students extra time to finish exams because women are 'adversely affected by time pressure'
Students sitting maths and computer science exams last summer were given an extra 15 minutes to com…
Bobbie Edsor
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The foremost academic expert on 'Fifty Shades of Grey' tells us why the movie is truly horrible
Bonomi's first study, published in 2013, used the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention's defin…
Lauren F Friedman
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There's Something Fundamentally Wrong With The College Business Model
Let me give you an example of the extent to which things are going wrong. A couple of years ago, a …
