It was formally announced Sept. 16 at Beloit College’s Academic Senate meeting that the College will no longer be offering a French major or minor for students to complete.

Tim Harford delivers the 2026 Baggs Memorial Happiness Lecture in its 50th Anniversary year.

Nearly 12,000 books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans.

If open research is judged only by who can read the final article, it overlooks who has the networks, feedback and institutional support to shape research.

A collection of stories tracing how queer people have built communities, challenged norms, and preserved their histories.

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

Effective January 1, 2027, peer-reviewed articles arising from grants and Chair awards must be made openly accessible upon publication.

On 13 November 2026 11.00 Swedish time (10.00 in the UK and Iceland) Nordinfolit (the Nordic association for information literacy) has organised a free webinar: Learning Lib – Open Educational Resources created by Nordic Libraries for everyone to use. "This webinar will give an introduction to the platform Learning Lib, a Nordic platform for Open Educational Resources (OER). Learning Lib hosts free to use educational resources and exercises aimed at supporting the development of students’ information literacy and other academic and library-supported competencies. The speakers will present the concept behind Learning Lib as well as an example of the practical use." Speakers are Anna Stegger Gemzøe and Solveig Sandal Johnsen from Aarhus University Library. Register to get the Zoom link - go to https://nordinfolit.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/upcoming-webinar-learninglib-open-educational-resources/

Terrible travel tales from around the world in 2025.

The new fantastical world that young adults will soon be exploring In the Long Shadows is steeped in Indian residential school history and intergenerational impacts.Ojibwe and Scottish writer Bear Mea...

The costs of municipal and provincial action—and inaction.

A new seven-year funding agreement with the federal government could mean seven First Nations in Saskatchewan will have more control over how they support their children and families. #aptnnews…

In the interior of British Columbia, a small group of First Nations are trying to prevent the closure of their CN rail line that connects Squamish and Prince George. The rail line was initially shut…

Indigenous leaders from the Amazon and Canada joined Manitoba NDP Leah Gazan in Ottawa to...

New research highlights how the pressure to move goods quickly often leads to harsh working conditions.

Taxpayers covered lease payments for hundreds of oil and gas companies in 2025.

One year after successfully halting Port Hawkesbury Paper from clear cutting a forest on Hunters Mountain in Cape Breton, Mi’kmaw land protectors and PHP are back, but this time select cutting under…

A galette is a rustic-looking, free-form pie/tart that you can make with store-bought puff pastry.

Happy College Radio Day! In honor of the annual celebration of student radio (this year on October 2), we invite you to explore the college radio collections in the Internet Archive’s Digital Library ...

MRU students and alumni behind the scenes in line up

« Les plaques tectoniques géopolitiques ont beaucoup bougé entre 1976 et 2026. Au cours des dernières décennies, les grands enjeux de politiques publiques se sont déplacés sur un échiquier dont les di...

Plenaries Plenary sessions bring together top leaders and thinkers to explore complex leadership questions with ILA's signature bridging of theory and practice. They challenge us to think more creativ...

This bundle contains all the Young Wizards material in the Ebooks Direct inventory. That's nineteen ebooks, containing: The nine New Millennium Editions of the main-sequence Young Wizards novels The ...

As investment in research capacity building for those who work in social care and social work increases, Hannah Kendrick, Sharon Paul and Juliette Malley discuss areas of potential, whilst setting…

The costs of municipal and provincial action—and inaction.

The menu of free shots available this fall includes a time-limited offer for seniors to get the RSV vaccine.