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May 29, 2013
F. King Alexander, president of California State University at Long Beach, has been named president of the Louisiana State University System and chancellor of LSU's main campus at Baton Rouge.
May 28, 2013
The details behind Georgia Tech's new deal with Udacity: big dollars and new types of instructional aides -- including some who work for the outside company.
May 28, 2013
Stanford hires Carnegie Mellon's Candace Thille, part of larger effort by university to shape study of learning science in higher education.
May 28, 2013
58 arts and sciences faculty members want a committee created to consider ethical issues related to the MOOC provider edX -- not just for the university, but for higher education broadly.
May 28, 2013
UCLA tells professors not to apply for new grants from pharmaceutical company, saying that the requirements violate university rules.
May 28, 2013
Segregation in higher education remains largely ignored, but two new studies show increasing concentrations of disadvantaged students at community colleges can affect completion rates.
May 28, 2013
Northwestern admissions leader created fake fields on internal database to classify those upset about some rejections. The humor didn't go over well with the parent of one rejected applicant.
