Among the key points made Wednesday at the National Science Foundation’s 2012 Joint Annual Meeting on Broadening Participation Research, high educational attainment in STEM disciplines become easier to reach when institutional leaders take systematic approaches toward change and make mentoring a prominent part of their programs.

Students in vastly different schools are taking the same tests, which to me, is and has always been incredibly unfair, writes University of Albany historian Ibram Rogers.

The conference commissioners who have been working on a four-team playoff to determine college football's national champion plan to present the BCS presidential oversight committee multiple formats from which to choose.