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Carmichael is the higher education reporter. She previously worked as an award-winning senior writer at Newsweek and has also written for The Economist, Nature, Scientific American, and others. She was a 2010-2011 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
The college will not reinstate Alane Shanks, who was put on leave last fall after investigations of her previous employer, Roxbury Community College.
Top administrators disclosed that covert searches of e-mail accounts regarding a massive cheating scandal were more extensive than previously acknowledged.
The university searched e-mails last fall in an effort to find the source of a leaked message regarding a cheating scandal.
Roxbury Community College released a troubling report today chronicling systemic lapses that caused the school to violate federal campus safety laws.