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Fewer students are earning a college credential within six years of first enrolling in college, according to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The nonprofit clearinghouse is able to track 96 percent of students nationwide. It found an overall national completion rate of 52.9 percent for students who enrolled in the fall of 2009. That rate was down 2.1 percentage points from that of the previous year's cohort of students, according to the clearinghouse, and the rate of decline is accelerating.

Namni Goel of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the effects of sleep deprivation on the body aside from fatigue.

Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education is cited for highlighting racist incidents on college campuses in 2014.

Nearly one million international students studied at colleges and universities in the United States in 2014-15, according to the 2015 Open Doors Report on International Education Exchange (IIE). The report, released on Monday, found that the numbers of international students in the United States jumped by more than 10 percent since 2013-14, the greatest rate of growth in 35 years. The United States maintains its lead over other countries in terms of attracting the greatest proportion of international students to its academic institutions.

A resolution to honor the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks each year at the University of Minnesota was rejected by the student government there, with some students expressing concern that such a measure could foster “Islamaphobia.” The resolution noted that the attack still has a lasting effect on many on campus, and “the events of that date are of immeasurable importance to the world we live in today,” and that the university has no formal memori

Nancy Hirschmann of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on the importance of transparency in academic research.

Carmen McLean and Edna Foa of the Perelman School of Medicine are cited for research that revealing that when common drug treatments failed for adults with OCD, exposure and prevention therapy improved symptoms.

Arthur van Benthem of the Wharton School co-writes an article about the battle against deforestation.

Matt Blaze of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is quoted about encryption.

With foreigners enrolling in U.S. schools at record numbers, students such as Noah Hernandez, a freshman at the University of California, San Diego, are getting a global view of the world without leaving their home state. The school has thousands of Chinese students, including Mr. Hernandez’s roommate, who pay three times the in-state tuition. “If I were running a school, it would make sense” to accept them, said the biology major, as a clutch of Mandarin-speaking students walked by.