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Midway through the semester, Detective Stafford was scheduled to visit Eddings’ class to chat with students and answer questions.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

Each semester, I would take my students to study frustrated users’ attempts to figure out the D.C.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

With help from Duke, Bior had secured a spot for the spring semester at a college in Dublin in another study-abroad program.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

The number of new and returning African students arriving in the U.S. for the 2025 fall semester fell by nearly a third from the previous year, according to preliminary Commerce Department data.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Everyone expected him to get straight As his first semester, but for someone who had lived in a bus or on a boat for the last ten years, there were too many distractions.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French