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Best American Poetry. Jackson serves as poetry editor of the Harvard Review. A Philadelphia native, Jackson pursued accounting at Temple University. After college he took a job as finance director at Philadelphia’s Painted Bride Art Center, where he developed a taste for art and activism. He turned to a brief career as a literary critic and journalist of the hip-hop scene before heading off to the University of Oregon to earn his Master of Fine Arts in poetry. He spent 18 years as a professor of English at The University of Vermont. Jackson recently told an interviewer at Vanderbilt that a...

02/17/21 A new white paper out of the University of Utah's Sorenson Impact Center outlines five ways to move higher education toward a student-equity-centric future. The Center, an academic "think-and-do tank" focused on solving problems through data and innovation, convened students, researchers, practitioners and institutional leaders to identify key issues in higher ed through the lens of student equity. The effort is part of the Center's MAPS Project, the same initiative that recently created a data dashboard tracking the impact of COVID-19 on higher ed.    "Student-equity-centric" was ...

Many students have expressed frustration with how the Chapel Hill Police Department handled the Feb. 6 Franklin Street rush, where approximately 1,000 people gathered, many without masks, after the UNC men's basketball team's win over Duke. 

Colorado Parks and Wildlife returned five orphaned black bear cubs to the wild Jan 27. The cubs were “denned” on Pikes Peak, where CPW had built two artificial habitats. Once

Steamboat Montessori School was part of a group of 13 charter schools to secure a state grant to help increase student engagement.(Photo by Dylan Anderson) STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Steamboat Montessori School is part of a group with a dozen other charter schools that obtained a nearly $1.5 million state grant to fund a pilot program aimed at identifying strategies to increase student engagement both during and after the pandemic. The local school will receive about $90,000 of that money over the next two fiscal years. Not all schools in the group will try the same technique. Instead, they hope t...