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March 2008

Tenure as a Tarnished Brass Ring

  • March 31, 2008

Among the Uninsured: 1.7 Million College Students

  • March 31, 2008

Better Contracts for Full-Time Adjuncts

  • March 31, 2008

Antioch U. Trustees Reject Plan to Save College and Offer to Sell It

  • March 31, 2008

Office Staff Feeling Overworked

  • March 31, 2008

Quick Takes: Postdoc Participation Up, Latest on Blackboard vs. Desire2Learn, Apology Over Obama Skit, Scrutiny of Tobacco Funding, Another Ben Stein Clash, Copying an Honor Code, ACE Fellows Named, Crocodiles Enroll at U. of Miami

  • March 31, 2008

Late Grades? Pay Up, Professor

  • March 28, 2008

New Impacts Seen for Faculty Unions

  • March 28, 2008

A Swipe at Credit Card Marketing

  • March 28, 2008

Yudof 'Right Guy at the Right Time' for UC System

  • March 28, 2008

Students Prefer Intensive Courses

  • March 28, 2008

Quick Takes: Louisville Scene of Latest Campus Incident, Calif. Aid Cut Would Hit 2-Year Students Hardest, Judge Backs Peer-Review Confidentiality, Another Bank Drops Student Loans, Library Theft, Israel Boycott Idea Resurfaces

  • March 28, 2008

Sticker Shock and Study Abroad

  • March 27, 2008

Ambiguity and Ignorance on Crime

  • March 27, 2008

Enrollment Managers Struggle With Image

  • March 27, 2008

Faculty Are Liberal -- Who Cares?

  • March 27, 2008

Quick Takes: Longer Waiting Lists, Juicy Answers Back, Texas Southern Ex-President Settles, Partial Vindication for Prof Fired Over E-Mail to Foreign Student, U.S. Guidance for Guarantors, Davidson's Student Fans Win Big

  • March 27, 2008

New Programs: Homeland Security, Communications, International Affairs, Biotechnology, Psychology

  • March 27, 2008

Doomed to Disappoint Justice O'Connor

  • March 26, 2008

Will a Trickle Become a Flood?

  • March 26, 2008

Encouraging Interfaith Experiences

  • March 26, 2008

A University's Fund Raising Arm Comes Under Attack

  • March 26, 2008

Cloudy Vista Ahead?

  • March 26, 2008

Quick Takes: Judge Rejects Suit Against Turnitin, Settlement Ends Grad Student Strike at Michigan, The Disappearing College Town Record Store

  • March 26, 2008

'Multiple Intelligences' at 25

  • March 25, 2008

The 'Double Hit' on Women's Salaries

  • March 25, 2008

A Civil Society and the Controversies Within It

  • March 25, 2008

Florida Lawmaker to Forgo Pay in University Job

  • March 25, 2008

Quick Takes: Michigan Grad Students Call Strike, Brazos Quits Loan Program, Settlement Proposed for Va. Tech Families, North Dakota Keeps Controversial Speaker, Ayn Rand Requirement, Mars Research Endangered, Out-of-Control Rabbits

  • March 25, 2008

New Presidents or Provosts: Cabrini College, College of Mount Saint Joseph, Elmhurst College, Erie CC, U. of Hartford, U. of Wisconsin La Crosse

  • March 25, 2008

Shifting Gold Standard for Aid Policy

  • March 24, 2008

See Ben Stein's Movie

  • March 24, 2008

U.S. Proposes New Rules on Student Privacy

  • March 24, 2008

Not So Free Speech in Campus Governance

  • March 24, 2008

Mid-Level Administrators' Salaries Up 3.9%

  • March 24, 2008

Guidance on Grants for Would-Be Teachers

  • March 24, 2008

Quick Takes: How Community College Students Start, More Aid From Harvard Med School, Another Direct Lending Convert, New Leader for AUB, Mixed Verdict on Reno Prof, Land Deal and Tenure, Science Agenda for the Candidates, Korean-Americans in Korea

  • March 24, 2008

Two Steps Forward, One Big Step Back

  • March 21, 2008

Finding the 'Perfect 60' for Transfer

  • March 21, 2008

Text, Trust and Third Parties

  • March 21, 2008

Women's Studies on the Chopping Block

  • March 21, 2008

EEOC Rejects Racial Bias Claim Against MIT

  • March 21, 2008

Quick Takes: U. of Chicago's Darfur Investments Criticized, 'Donations' for Fla. Chancellor Questioned, Nudity Cover-Up at Malone, Donor's Name Will Disappear, Aid Officers' Group Urges Help for Lenders, Study Finds Gender Bias in UK

  • March 21, 2008

Demographic Boom and Bust

  • March 20, 2008

A State Senator’s Sweet Deal

  • March 20, 2008

Defaulting Donor or Unresponsive Donee?

  • March 20, 2008

Campus Violence, Viewed From Afar

  • March 20, 2008

Quick Takes: Texas Chief Eyed for U. of Cal., Texas-Brownsville Wins Fence Fight, TCU Moves Event With Rev. Wright, Changes in Common Application, District Bans Blood Drives, Antioch Protest at 1 Dupont, Strike at Wilfred Laurier, Furor Over Ottawa Paper

  • March 20, 2008

Newly Tenured ... at California Lutheran, Hamilton, Hartnell

  • March 20, 2008

When Med Students Become Admissions Counselors

  • March 19, 2008

Beyond Price, Other Barriers to College Loom

  • March 19, 2008

Private Colleges Proliferating, Worldwide

  • March 19, 2008

Pushing the Limit on Federal Loans

  • March 19, 2008

Quick Takes: Affirmative Action Ban Upheld, Student Stress, Harvard Law Promotes Public Service, Debate on Prof's Pose on S/M Web Site, Black Hawk Cuts Jobs, NJ Probes Gossip Site, Student Avoids Expulsion in Facebook Case, NEH Honors Updike

  • March 19, 2008

New Programs: Communications, Sports Management, Funeral Home Management, Health Informatics, Science and the Public, Human Resources

  • March 19, 2008

When Independent Study Raises Red Flags

  • March 18, 2008

The Mental Health Squeeze

  • March 18, 2008

Tenure, the Movie

  • March 18, 2008

The Future of Oxford

  • March 18, 2008

Quick Takes: Sudden Leave at Southern Illinois, Claremont McKenna and Lafayette Add Aid, Another Cartoon Controversy at U.Va., Payroll Snafu, St. Edward's Expands in France, Quidditch Spring Break, Bancroft Prizes, Rare Look at Morrill Act

  • March 18, 2008

New Presidents or Provosts: California Lutheran U., Fayetteville State U., Kalamazoo College, Manchester CC, Mercyhurst College, Ottawa U., Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College

  • March 18, 2008

Business as Usual on Earmarks

  • March 17, 2008

SAT Subject Tests Face New Scrutiny

  • March 17, 2008

Playing Politics on Student Loans

  • March 17, 2008

Access and Equity: A Comparative Perspective

  • March 17, 2008

A Bracket Not to Bet On

  • March 17, 2008

Quick Takes: Mich. Athletes' Favorite Prof, Northeastern Shifts to Direct Lending, Crash Kills 3 Researchers, Push for Guns on Campus, Antioch U. Tries to Squelch Web Site, 'Monologues' at Notre Dame, Banned at Brevard, From Ga. Tech to Smithsonian

  • March 17, 2008

The Nontraditional President

  • March 14, 2008

AWOL on Civil Rights?

  • March 14, 2008

Private Counselors Who Won't Double Dip

  • March 14, 2008

Spring Break. Woo.

  • March 14, 2008

Quick Takes: Senate Rejects Earmark Ban, 2 Years of Broken Fire Alarms, Resignations and Probes Follow Tenure Denial, Protest Over Indian Team Name, Lake City Ends Athletics, Lehigh Adds Aid, Australia's Spellings Commission Equivalent

  • March 14, 2008

Newly Tenured ... at Holy Cross, Ithaca College, La Salle U., U. of Findlay

  • March 14, 2008

Defining a Ban on Secret Research

  • March 13, 2008

Communication and Comfort Across Ethnic Lines

  • March 13, 2008

New Campus, in New Cairo

  • March 13, 2008

Hedging Bets on Student Loan Availability

  • March 13, 2008

Quick Takes: Boston Limits Off-Campus Housing, Germany vs. U.S. Ph.D.'s, Kaplan Sued by Ex-Employees, Threat on Gossip Site Leads to Arrest, Hawaii May Alter Dorm Rules, Rohrabacher vs. Gates, Ohio State vs. R.J. Reynolds, New Argument for Higher Ed

  • March 13, 2008

New Presidents or Provosts: College of New Jersey, Colorado Mountain College, Lake Region State College, Mount Hood CC, Principia College, St. Norbert College, Vanderbilt U.

  • March 13, 2008

A Student Loan Credit Crunch -- But for Whom?

  • March 12, 2008

Clarion Call for More NIH Funding

  • March 12, 2008

Overhauling Law School's Third Year

  • March 12, 2008

When No. 1 Doesn't Get the Glory

  • March 12, 2008

The Shrinking Professoriate

  • March 12, 2008

Quick Takes: Next Steps in Blackboard-Desire2Learn Dispute, Hazing Continues, Indictments in Eco-Terror Case, Vassar Adds Aid, Antioch Faculty Sues, No Confidence at Moore, Palomar Clarifies Policy on Grade Changes, NCAA Punishes Brigham Young

  • March 12, 2008

Seminaries Under Stress

  • March 11, 2008

Promising Path on Remediation

  • March 11, 2008

Gen Ed Reform -- Supersized

  • March 11, 2008

Ohio Court Unravels Professor's Victory in Age Discrimination Case

  • March 11, 2008

'Virtual Jihadi' Leaves RPI; Controversy Doesn't

  • March 11, 2008

Quick Takes: Affirmative Action Fight in Colo., Gay Couple Sues Hawaii, Mich. Settles Stadium Suit, Tax-Free Texts, Columbia Adds Aid, Hopkins President to Retire, Candidates Back Earmark Ban, Politicking on Loans, Beijing U. Wants to Ban Online Gossip

  • March 11, 2008

Art and the College Administrator

  • March 10, 2008

Faculty Salaries Up 4%

  • March 10, 2008

Moving Past the Start-Up Grant

  • March 10, 2008

Admissions Group to Tackle Conflict of Interest Issues

  • March 10, 2008

Concern Over Michigan Tenure Case

  • March 10, 2008

Quick Takes: Loyalty Oath Compromise, Sudden Departure at Miss. State, Athletic Realities, Physicist Wins House Seat, Whistle Blower Accused of Plagiarism, Short Story Leads to Guns, MIT and Carleton Expand Aid, Lender Layoffs, Rankings Parody

  • March 10, 2008

Snapshots of Endowment Spending

  • March 7, 2008

Who Gets How Much Money and Where It Goes

  • March 7, 2008

An Expensive Expulsion

  • March 7, 2008

Should Prospective Faculty Disclose Criminal Backgrounds?

  • March 7, 2008

Polytechnic Board Approves Merger Into NYU

  • March 7, 2008

Quick Takes: Campuses Shaken, RPI Suspends Exhibit, Credit Crunch, Conviction in Lab Arson, Anthropologists Object to Anti-Gay Claims, Adjuncts Unionize, Profs Unionize, Fisk Banned From Selling Art, Probation for Long Beach, Cheeseheads

  • March 7, 2008

Pushing for Job Conversions

  • March 6, 2008

Science Facilities Reconsidered

  • March 6, 2008

Cutting Tuition -- and Thriving

  • March 6, 2008

'Academic Freedom in the Wired World'

  • March 6, 2008

Quick Takes: Impact of a Student's Lie, Non-Impact of Athletics on Donations, Educating 10,000 Women, Riot and Arrests at Evergreen State, Abusing Prescription Drugs

  • March 6, 2008

Newly Tenured ... at Northeastern, Occidental, U. of Texas at Austin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • March 6, 2008

'Chic Geek': Computer Science Major Rebounds

  • March 5, 2008

Apples for All

  • March 5, 2008

From Bay Area to Red Sea

  • March 5, 2008

Employment and the Undergraduate Degree

  • March 5, 2008

Quick Takes: Loyalty Oath Backed in California, Math Education Blasted, Arizona in China, Higher Ed Act Views, AG Won't Get Medal at BC, European Quality Control, Board Dispute Settled, Money for Retreats vs. Money for Adjuncts, Immigrant Ph.D.'s

  • March 5, 2008

New Presidents or Provosts: Allegheny College, DePauw U., La. Commission of Higher Education, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Union Theological Seminary., U. of Arizona

  • March 5, 2008

Green Planning on a Grand Scale

  • March 4, 2008

Pulling Back the Curtain on Private Loans

  • March 4, 2008

Newly Tenured -- at Age 68

  • March 4, 2008

New Evidence Bolsters Women's Colleges

  • March 4, 2008

Drive Starts to Preserve 'Non-Stop Antioch'

  • March 4, 2008

Quick Takes: Early Success on SAT-Optional Plan, Suit Over Student's Death, Civility Suit Settled, Postdoc Jobs Rated, Sudden Closure for Trade School, Whaling Research Questioned, Einstein and Margarine, Copying a Campaign?

  • March 4, 2008

At U. of California, a Systemic Governance Crisis

  • March 3, 2008

This Course Brought to You By....

  • March 3, 2008

A Loyalty Oath Firing in 2008

  • March 3, 2008

Ethics for Managing Study Abroad

  • March 3, 2008

Quick Takes: Ark. Tech Allows Musical, Berkeley-Saudi Deal, Harvard Basketball Recruiting Questioned, Northwestern Dean Cleared, Paper Suspends Opinion Section, Duke Bars Sudan Holdings, No More Paper Cups, 20 New UK Universities, Australian Prostitutes

  • March 3, 2008

New Programs: Health Sciences, Engineering, Marine Science, Avionics, Pharmacy

  • March 3, 2008
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