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November 2007

In Graduate Schools, Boost for Minorities

  • November 30, 2007

A More Meaningful Default Rate

  • November 30, 2007

Questions, Anger and Dissent on Ethics Study

  • November 30, 2007

Assessment From the Faculty Point of View

  • November 30, 2007

Quick Takes: Career Training Urged for Social Science Ph.D.'s, Ala. Jury Orders NCAA to Pay Booster $5M, Worldwide Hacking Incident, Report on BU Facility Questioned, Christmas Tree Returns, Delay of Doctoral Report, Advice From Above

  • November 30, 2007

New Programs: Biotechnology, American Indian Studies, Education

  • November 30, 2007

Ethics and Engagement With the Military

  • November 29, 2007

Hype vs. Reality in Arabic Enrollment Boom

  • November 29, 2007

On the Brink of Bankruptcy

  • November 29, 2007

Spray-Painting Pynchon

  • November 29, 2007

Inviting States to Innovate

  • November 29, 2007

Quick Takes: Uncertainties Over Concussions in College Football, MIT's High School Site, Secret Ticket Wishlist, Push for Independent Universities in Cuba, Ivy Bashing, Harvard Bashing

  • November 29, 2007

Geography Emerges in Distance Ed

  • November 28, 2007

Ending the Intellectual Property Frenzy

  • November 28, 2007

Growth and Consolidation of Minority Enrollments

  • November 28, 2007

Berkeley as the 'Immigrant University'

  • November 28, 2007

Studying Human Trafficking

  • November 28, 2007

Quick Takes: Colleges Ordered to Admit Undocumented Students, Manchester Starts 3-Year Degrees, Kentucky Seeks Ex-Students, ACLU Challenges Videotaping Ban, Oregon Settles Suit, Oral Roberts Could Get $70M, GED Policies

  • November 28, 2007

When E-Mail Is Outsourced

  • November 27, 2007

Giving New Meaning to 'Program for Parents'

  • November 27, 2007

Historians Team Up to Back Obama

  • November 27, 2007

A Plan to Improve Campus Mobility

  • November 27, 2007

Quick Takes: Labor Leader for Labor College, Expansion Disputes, Kaplan Expands in China, Penn Prof Pleads Guilty, Med School Ends Use of Live Dogs, Uproar at Oxford, Transgender Homecoming King

  • November 27, 2007

New Programs: Game Engineeering, Aesthetics and Politics, Japanese, Culinology, Conservation Biology

  • November 27, 2007

How, Then, Shall We Learn?

  • November 26, 2007

Targeting Time Toward Degree

  • November 26, 2007

Benefits for Pets, Not Partners

  • November 26, 2007

Unusual Job Requirement

  • November 26, 2007

Speech Hits a Sore Spot at Dartmouth

  • November 26, 2007

Quick Takes: Oral Roberts President Quits, Suit on Investment, College Cuts Friday Classes, Student Dragged to Death, Green Building Kills Birds, Where Psychoanalysis Isn't Taught, Auction to Name Butterfly, Grievances in Egypt, Oxford Speakers

  • November 26, 2007

Scrutiny for Student Fees

  • November 21, 2007

Creating a Ruckus at Rutgers (Again)

  • November 21, 2007

The Pilgrimage Home

  • November 21, 2007

More Doctors of Philosophy (and Science)

  • November 21, 2007

Quick Takes: Swarthmore Settles on ADA Review, U.S. Backs Suit Against Michigan, Paterno Salary Will Become Public, Defaults Kill Football at Rainy River, Faculty Jobs in Canada, Life in the Mailroom

  • November 21, 2007

New Presidents or Provosts: Association of Commonwealth Universities, Babson College, Bloomsburg U. of Pennsylvania, Camden CC, Delta State U., Kendall College, McKendree U., Pacific U.

  • November 21, 2007

Another Call for Assessment

  • November 20, 2007

Extending the Arm of Campus Law

  • November 20, 2007

Unprecedented Detail on Asian Applicants

  • November 20, 2007

Audit Finds U.S. Overpayments to Lender

  • November 20, 2007

Quick Takes: New Aid Loophole, Occidental President Quits After 17 Months, Hate Crime Data, Brigham Young Criticized for Rhino Hunt, Michigan Responds on Stadium, LLB vs. JD

  • November 20, 2007

New Programs: Applied Physics, Biotechnology, Nursing

  • November 20, 2007

The Pendulum Swings on Accreditation

  • November 19, 2007

Are Museums Academic Units?

  • November 19, 2007

Few Policies on Plagiarism

  • November 19, 2007

First-Year Writing Gets a New Look

  • November 19, 2007

Improving Science Instruction -- in Iraq

  • November 19, 2007

Quick Takes: Publishing Controversy, Concerns on A&M Search, Decline of Reading, Hunger Strike Ends, Maricopa Hire Questioned, Win for David Noble, Schools Won't Tell, Tuition Hikes Faulted, Gallaudet Off Probation, Reprieve for Paintings, Rhodes Scholars

  • November 19, 2007

The Conservative Pipeline Problem

  • November 16, 2007

When It's OK to Copy

  • November 16, 2007

Dissecting the Biology Curriculum

  • November 16, 2007

Asking for Input -- Deliberately

  • November 16, 2007

House Panel Backs Higher Ed Bill

  • November 16, 2007

Quick Takes: New Measure of What Students Learn, Ominous RFP, Noose and Blackface Incidents, Opposition to Community College Measure, Hiring Surge at Michigan, Accusations From the Past, Oxford's Leader to Leave

  • November 16, 2007

Warning on Tuition, Shift on Accreditation

  • November 15, 2007

Who Should Be Ashamed?

  • November 15, 2007

To Cut Textbook Costs, They're Printing Their Own

  • November 15, 2007

Professors of the Year

  • November 15, 2007

When 'Not Gay' is 'Not OK'

  • November 15, 2007

Quick Takes: Battle Continues on South African Scholar, Scholarships for Veterans, UCLA Reforms Dental Admissions, Public Crisis, Antioch Layoff Letter Withdrawn, Good Prospects for Graduating Seniors, MCAT Help for Canada, Loyal Alumni to the End

  • November 15, 2007

More Students, More Languages

  • November 14, 2007

Professors and Politics (Again)

  • November 14, 2007

Reconsidering Retiree Health Benefits

  • November 14, 2007

'Scholarship in the Digital Age'

  • November 14, 2007

A Campaign of Many Grievances

  • November 14, 2007

Quick Takes: Bush Vetoes Spending, Cheating at Dental Schools Probed, Del Mar Delays Vote, No Confidence at Oral Roberts, Anger at Columbia, Baptist Separations, William & Mary Releases E-Mail, Court Lets Stand Ruling for Coach, Moving Bees

  • November 14, 2007

When and Why Professors Retire

  • November 13, 2007

Striking Students

  • November 13, 2007

Learning 2.0

  • November 13, 2007

Study Abroad Gone Awry

  • November 13, 2007

Quick Takes: Antioch Layoff Letter Angers Alumni, Journalism Professor's Plagiarism, Boating Accident Kills Colby Official, Compassion at Clemson

  • November 13, 2007

New Presidents or Provosts: Cayuga County CC, Central Michigan U., Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Finger Lakes CC, Northcentral U., Tabor College

  • November 13, 2007

Cost of College a Bipartisan Concern

  • November 12, 2007

More Foreign Students -- Everywhere

  • November 12, 2007

Accountability System Launched

  • November 12, 2007

Checking Up on Your Past

  • November 12, 2007

Rules of (Community College) Engagement

  • November 12, 2007

Saving Time or Betraying Trust?

  • November 12, 2007

Quick Takes: Tragedy on Inauguration Day, Hoax Paper on Global Warming, Online Strategy Survey, Court Won't Reconsider Colorado Ruling, Tree-Sitting Spreads in California, Israeli Brain Drain

  • November 12, 2007

University Training in the Skilled Trades

  • November 9, 2007

Sending in the Class Monitor

  • November 9, 2007

Football Diaries

  • November 9, 2007

Faculty Productivity, Learning to Teach, Student Satisfaction

  • November 9, 2007

Quick Takes: What Irvine Donor Bought, Art Sale Blocked, Pomona Debate Cut Short, Tensions at Denison, President's Sudden Exit, House Falls Short on Spending Bill, Kentucky Debunks Rumor, Pneumonia Outbreak, Social Networking and Student Ethnicity

  • November 9, 2007

New Programs: Homeland Security, Engineering, Law, Information Technology, Knowledge Integration

  • November 9, 2007

Reaching Students With Chronic Illness

  • November 8, 2007

Green Initiative Finds a High-Profile Friend

  • November 8, 2007

Should Colleges Profit When Alumni Lend to Alumni?

  • November 8, 2007

Millennials, Unspun

  • November 8, 2007

'Sentenced to Science'

  • November 8, 2007

Quick Takes: Obama on Higher Ed, Anthro Association Questions Military Program, Cal State's Civility Standard Questioned, Missing Adjunct Paychecks, Northwestern in Qatar, Research Funds Debated in Canada, Who Poisoned Romeo the Pig?

  • November 8, 2007

A Small Step Toward Transparency

  • November 7, 2007

Mixed Picture on International Enrollment

  • November 7, 2007

'Fundamentally Inconsistent' With University Values

  • November 7, 2007

Mixed Results on Bonds and Taxes for Colleges and Research

  • November 7, 2007

A Friendly Reminder

  • November 7, 2007

Epidemiology 101 As an Undergraduate Mainstay

  • November 7, 2007

Quick Takes: Cap on Indirect Research Costs, Cal State Faulted on Executive Pay, Call to Improve Training of Principals, Wireless Improvements, Drug Assault With Cookies, Grants for Mainers at Colby, New International Model

  • November 7, 2007

All the Grass Is Brown (and the Skies Aren't Gray)

  • November 6, 2007

Grading the AP Curriculum

  • November 6, 2007

Fight Over Tenure and Faculty Rights

  • November 6, 2007

Making Room at the 'Big House' and Beyond

  • November 6, 2007

Healthy Expansion in Med School Enrollments

  • November 6, 2007

Quick Takes: MIT Sues Gehry, Universities Defend Animal Research, Budget Woes in California, Settlement and New Name for Fla. Metropolitan, Loyola Pulls Literary Magazine, Condom Plan Blocked, Acadia Strike May End

  • November 6, 2007

Involved Parents, Satisfied Students

  • November 5, 2007

Why the Rich Universities Get Richer

  • November 5, 2007

Antioch Survives -- at What Price?

  • November 5, 2007

Barnard Tenures Scholar Opposed by Massive Campaign

  • November 5, 2007

Early Retirement Payments Are Taxable, Court Rules

  • November 5, 2007

A Challenge to the Recording Industry?

  • November 5, 2007

Quick Takes: Colleges Will Be Covered by Chemical Regulations, Court Faults U. of Cal. on Tuition, Grade Buying Alleged, Research on Scholarly Communication, Blackface Furor at Hamline, Noose Ignorance at Reed, Augustana Goes Test-Optional, Staph Suit

  • November 5, 2007

The Possible New Pell Grant: $4,925

  • November 2, 2007

Williams Drops Loans and Wesleyan Curbs Them

  • November 2, 2007

Muzzling a Watchdog?

  • November 2, 2007

A Different View of the Middle East

  • November 2, 2007

A College-Friendly Take on Rising Prices

  • November 2, 2007

Imperfect Peek Into the Police Blotter

  • November 2, 2007

Quick Takes: Clinton Organizes Students, Delaware Halts Program, Michigan Enrollment, Bill to Cut Birth Control Costs, Fees for Visitor Program, Gaza Story Questioned, NASFAA Assesses Loan Rules, Senators Seek Audit on Loophole, Rally at St. Thomas

  • November 2, 2007

A Satisfied Full-Time Faculty

  • November 1, 2007

New Numbers on Underrepresented Faculty Members

  • November 1, 2007

Campus Food From Around the Corner

  • November 1, 2007

Bringing the Gun Debate Back to Campus

  • November 1, 2007

The Education Department's Activist Agenda

  • November 1, 2007

Quick Takes: $190 Million Sale of Touro Online Division, Policy on Corporate Names, Swastika Painted on Professor's Door, Noose Art Offends, No Confidence at MassBay, Gaza Students Can't Return to U.S.

  • November 1, 2007
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