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May 2006

Justices Punt on Academic Freedom

  • May 31, 2006

What Really Counts in Getting In

  • May 31, 2006

Fuss Over a Financial Aid 'Fix'

  • May 31, 2006

New Approaches to Faculty Hiring

  • May 31, 2006

Show Us the Money

  • May 31, 2006

Quick Takes: International Principles for Rankings, Interest Rates to Spike, Increase in State Student Aid, Larry Summers's Last Stand, Financing Graduate School, Catawba in the Clear, Capital U. CFO Quits, Speech Clampdown for LSU Professor

  • May 31, 2006

Teaching, Research, Service ... & Patents

  • May 30, 2006

Another Round (or Five)

  • May 30, 2006

The Future of a Dinosaur

  • May 30, 2006

The Value of Intervention

  • May 30, 2006

British Professors Seek to Cut Ties to Israeli Scholars

  • May 30, 2006

Quick Takes: Court Rejects Ark. Ex-Coach's Suit, Caltech Names President, Layoffs at Case Western, Delaware Drops Early Decision, Hack Attack at Sacred Heart, Debate Team Drug Use, Support for Free Speech in Pa.

  • May 30, 2006

Momentum for Going SAT-Optional

  • May 26, 2006

Ever-Expanding False Claims Act

  • May 26, 2006

The Hot Choice, Post-College

  • May 26, 2006

Suing for Access to Cuba

  • May 26, 2006

Okla. Basketball Violations Tarnish Indiana

  • May 26, 2006

Quick Takes: Governors Praise Rules Clarification, Checklist for Cross-Border Programs, Anger Over Georgetown Appointment, Division at Lake County, Adjunct Union at Marymount Manhattan, Deer and Lawyers on the Attack

  • May 26, 2006

The Technology Mosaic

  • May 25, 2006

Less Leeway for Religious Colleges

  • May 25, 2006

Faculty Rights, Post-Katrina

  • May 25, 2006

Florida Isolationism

  • May 25, 2006

Show Them the Money

  • May 25, 2006

Quick Takes: Ward Churchill's Defense, Gustavus Adolphus Drops ACT/SAT, Presque Isle Professors Vote No Confidence, Stanford's Semi-Secret $100M, Indiana Students' Grants Shrink, Wire Fraud by Coach

  • May 25, 2006

Unwanted Export?

  • May 24, 2006

A Commencement Turns Ugly

  • May 24, 2006

Knox Found Negligent in Student's Death

  • May 24, 2006

N.Y. Approves Tougher Rules for For-Profits

  • May 24, 2006

All Over the Map

  • May 24, 2006

Quick Takes: Faculty Diversity at U. of California, New Co-Chairs for Knight Commission, College Reconsiders Corporate Honor for BP, Michigan State Returns Papers to Russia, Northeastern State Drops 'Redmen' Name

  • May 24, 2006

New Source of 'Tough Love' for Colleges

  • May 23, 2006

People of the Book (and the University)

  • May 23, 2006

Transformation at Antioch

  • May 23, 2006

Standing Up to Bill O'Reilly

  • May 23, 2006

Quick Takes: Export Panel Praised by Higher Ed Groups, Missouri Rejects Ken Lay Request, Protests Against Rice at Boston College, $1M for a Women's Coach

  • May 23, 2006

The Hurdles Ahead

  • May 22, 2006

The Quest for Crossover Books

  • May 22, 2006

Vanderbilt Rising

  • May 22, 2006

Small Grants, Big Impact

  • May 22, 2006

Out With the Old at American U.

  • May 22, 2006

Quick Takes: Oversight Proposed for Testing Industry, McCain Heckled, Family Business, Hackers at Ohio U., Vermont Won't Buy New Campus, St. Ambrose Won't Help Break a Strike, Columbia to Seek $4B, Brandeis Considers How Jewish to Be

  • May 22, 2006

Consensus in Short Supply

  • May 19, 2006

Student Casualties of Iraq

  • May 19, 2006

Science Bill Advances

  • May 19, 2006

Marginal Forward Progress

  • May 19, 2006

Jocks Gone Wild?

  • May 19, 2006

Quick Takes: Critic of Colleges Loses Primary, Calif. Regents Back President, Management Wins Career Ed Vote, Dartmouth Help for Grad Students, BU Bars Sudan Stocks, UNLV's Pick, FBI Raid, Doonesbury's College Poll, NCAA Rejects McMurry 'Indians'

  • May 19, 2006

Mea Culpa, Twice Over

  • May 18, 2006

'Safe Campus' Notions Gunned Down

  • May 18, 2006

Errors of Admission?

  • May 18, 2006

An Order From Congress

  • May 18, 2006

Progress and Peril for Career Education

  • May 18, 2006

Quick Takes: More Reports From the U.S. Commission, MLA Mulls Change in Meeting Dates, Data Released About U.S. Colleges, iTunes Incentive From Saint Joseph

  • May 18, 2006

Truth and Consequences

  • May 17, 2006

N.Y. Proposes Tax on For-Profits

  • May 17, 2006

Tactical Retreat

  • May 17, 2006

Change in Climate for Stem Cells?

  • May 17, 2006

A Dean Takes on Departments

  • May 17, 2006

Quick Takes: Calif. Action Against Photo School Voided, NCAA Condemns Native American Imagery at William & Mary

  • May 17, 2006

The Ward Churchill Verdict

  • May 16, 2006

Mandatory Retirement as Women's Issue

  • May 16, 2006

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

  • May 16, 2006

No Pain, No Gain

  • May 16, 2006

Bright Day for U. of Denver's Libyan Students

  • May 16, 2006

Quick Takes: Northwestern Suspends Women's Soccer, Value of Open Access, New Duke Indictment, $50M for UT-Austin, New England Floods, End of the 'Cocktail Party'?

  • May 16, 2006

New Presidents or Provosts: Lynn U., Mansfield U. of Pa., Murray State U., Teachers College, Temple U., U. of Denver, U. of Nevada-Reno

  • May 16, 2006

Middle East Wars on U.S. Campuses

  • May 15, 2006

A Meeting of Humanistic Minds

  • May 15, 2006

Preemptive Strike

  • May 15, 2006

Unfair Dismissals Found

  • May 15, 2006

Bad Connection at U. of Michigan

  • May 15, 2006

Quick Takes: Applications Are Up, UCLA Search Collapses, Hefty Phone Bill, Adjunct Quits BC Over Rice, Harvard Backed in Firing Bipolar Worker, Former Texas President to Lead Math Panel, J-School Fight at SIU, Maryland Violations

  • May 15, 2006

Crunch Time for Commission

  • May 12, 2006

Media Criticism

  • May 12, 2006

Boycott Debate Is Back

  • May 12, 2006

NCAA Finds Wrongdoing at St. John's

  • May 12, 2006

If There's a Will

  • May 12, 2006

Quick Takes: Students Who Work, Churchill Objects to New Charges, Indictments in Lab Attack, Bond Vote Called Off, Harvard Law Curricular Review, Court Permits Suit Against Marshall, House Panel Acts on Humanities Funds, Cornerstone Keeps Vice Bans

  • May 12, 2006

Clash of Interests

  • May 11, 2006

Help for the Minor Majors

  • May 11, 2006

Difficult Separation for Belmont

  • May 11, 2006

A Speech In Full

  • May 11, 2006

Colleges Wait for the Next Tax Bill

  • May 11, 2006

Quick Takes: Stanford Professor Sues Over Horowitz Book, $100M for Supercomputing at RPI, Fines Over 'Brokeback' Hazing, No More Flags at UT-Arlington, Legendary Student Avoids Graduation Again

  • May 11, 2006

Prowling for Cash

  • May 10, 2006

Accountability, Canadian Style

  • May 10, 2006

Ben Folds Goes Back to College

  • May 10, 2006

Overexposed?

  • May 10, 2006

Quick Takes: Silber Earns Another $6.1M From BU, Gallaudet Board Chair Quits, Deaf Students Sue Utah State, Bush Nominates Voc-Ed Official, Lenders' Report Endorses Guaranteed Loan Program, Freshmen Face Chlamydia Risk

  • May 10, 2006

New Presidents or Provosts: Raritan Valley CC, Lehigh U., Kent State U., Drew U., Plymouth State U., Sitting Bull College

  • May 10, 2006

Gallaudet Opposition Grows

  • May 9, 2006

Fact-Checking David Horowitz

  • May 9, 2006

Fighting the FCC Over Profanity

  • May 9, 2006

At Duke, a Failure to Communicate

  • May 9, 2006

A Policy Change on Study Abroad Pays Off

  • May 9, 2006

Quick Takes: Fines for Career Education, Mo. Plan to Sell Off Loan Assets Founders, Stanford Raises Contractor Wages, Smith Bans Sudan Investments

  • May 9, 2006

Who Investigates a President?

  • May 8, 2006

Ready or Not

  • May 8, 2006

'Hotness' and Quality

  • May 8, 2006

Limited Victory for Christian Fraternity

  • May 8, 2006

'60 Minutes' vs. Sallie Mae

  • May 8, 2006

Quick Takes: Too Hot for Brooklyn, Kean to Open in China, Colleges as Drug Producers, Bush Endorses Technology Within Limits, Lawmakers Fight NCAA on Mascot Names, Final (Swim) Test

  • May 8, 2006

New Push to Ease Debt

  • May 5, 2006

Facing Down the 'Snob Factor'

  • May 5, 2006

Not in D.C. Anymore

  • May 5, 2006

Student Performance Stirs Emotions

  • May 5, 2006

Quick Takes: New Plagiarism Charges Against Wesley President, Universities Win in Patent Dispute, Official Tapped for Temporary Education Dept. Post, Top 10 IT Issues, Authenticity of Northridge Gift Questioned, Hawks Replace Braves at Chowan

  • May 5, 2006

A Sobering Challenge

  • May 4, 2006

Ethnic Tensions in Dallas

  • May 4, 2006

One Size Doesn't Fit All

  • May 4, 2006

Nudging the NSF on Education

  • May 4, 2006

Hell No -- He Won't Go

  • May 4, 2006

Quick Takes: Bill Would Require Online Publication of Tax-Supported Studies, Brandeis Criticized for Pulling Palestinian Art, Maryland Student Charged in Arson Death, Library Groups to Merge

  • May 4, 2006

New SAT Mystery

  • May 3, 2006

Senatorial Peer Review

  • May 3, 2006

Distance Ed Pioneer Reassesses Itself

  • May 3, 2006

Fleshing Out the New Financial Aid Programs

  • May 3, 2006

Quick Takes: Geographical Ignorance, Another Audit Criticizes U. of California, Does Rice Deserve Honorary Degree?

  • May 3, 2006

New Programs: Computer Forensics, Health Care Leadership, Working Adults, Homeland Security

  • May 3, 2006

Booze Blamed at Duke

  • May 2, 2006

Miami's Union Breakthrough

  • May 2, 2006

Locking Down Departmental Data

  • May 2, 2006

A Sign of Change at Gallaudet

  • May 2, 2006

Skipping Class for a Reason

  • May 2, 2006

Quick Takes: Industry Support for Academic R&D Falls, Profs Fail Bush, Phoenix President Will Step Down, Guilty Plea for Ex-President of Morris Brown, Jail for Al-Arian, Qatar Gives Millions to New Orleans Colleges, Whistle Blower at American

  • May 2, 2006

The Evolving (Eroding?) Faculty Job

  • May 1, 2006

Not So OpenCourseWare

  • May 1, 2006

Florida Weighs Help for For-Profits

  • May 1, 2006

Is NCAA Using the Bully Pulpit -- or Bullying?

  • May 1, 2006

Second Chance for a Fallen Coach

  • May 1, 2006

Quick Takes: U.S. Leadership in Physics Seen in Danger, New Reports From Spellings Panel, Columbia Bars Sudan Stocks, RPI President Seeks Better Communication, Minn. Students Walk Out of Classes, Congressman at Frat Party

  • May 1, 2006
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