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There’s nothing quite as motivating as reverse psychology, is there? Tell a person to do something, and you have a 50/50 chance of them meeting your request. Tell someone, “Ah, well, you wouldn’t be ...

Mo Marie Lauyanne Kouame, 18, dreams of being an aerospace engineer and building spacecraft. This fall, she applied to MIT, Princeton, and Columbia. For one college essay, she wrote about being ...

Samantha Fulnecky, a psychology junior at the University of Oklahoma, has gained national attention after receiving a zero grade for citing the Bible in an opinion-based essay on gender binary labels.

A graduate instructor at the University of Oklahoma was placed on leave after giving a student a failing grade for rejecting the notion that someone’s identity can fall outside of the two genders ...

A graduate student instructor at the University of Oklahoma was placed on administrative leave after a student filed a discrimination complaint. The student, Samantha Fulnecky, claims she received a ...

Division on whether an OU student should have received a zero on her essay, but most agreed that her free speech rights had not been violated.

A University of Oklahoma student studying psychology says the failing grade she received on an essay where she cited the Bible was a violation of her right to free speech. In her essay, which was in ...

I’ll finish writing this Bluff article later. I need to write an essay first. The worst thing about being a communication studies major is that you have to communicate. Not just once or twice, but all ...

Cracker Barrel has dismantled its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and scrubbed Pride messaging from its website in the wake of a bruising logo controversy that drew fire from conservatives ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brennan Barnard writes about the nuances of college admission. The college essay or “personal statement” gets a lot of airtime in ...

Those seeking a job in the federal government will now have to write an essay in support of President Donald Trump's executive orders, according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management.