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April 2008

Drift Toward Direct Lending (Update)

  • April 30, 2008

A Professor Sues His Students

  • April 30, 2008

Fuzzier, More Intimate Online Controversy

  • April 30, 2008

Forestry: No Longer Evergreen?

  • April 30, 2008

Ethnic Profiling Alleged at Georgetown

  • April 30, 2008

Quick Takes: Agenda for the Candidates, Aid Ban for Drug Convicts Upheld, Deadbeat Dad as Donor, CFO Views, Settlement With Test-Prep Company, Michigan Opens Health Curriculum, Ghana Trip Faulted, No SMU Pub, Academy Names Members, Philosophical Muffin

  • April 30, 2008

More Than Shock Value

  • April 29, 2008

Voltaire Wasn't Cut Out to Be an Iowa State TA

  • April 29, 2008

Online Texts for Community College Students

  • April 29, 2008

When Athletics May Influence Alumni Giving

  • April 29, 2008

Quick Takes: Another WVU Resignation, Potomac College Sold, Community Colleges Go for Boomers, Full Scholarships for First Med School Class, Sentences in Hazing Case, Jerry Springer as Commencement Speaker, American Academy's New Members

  • April 29, 2008

Newly Tenured ... at Texas Christian, U. of Kansas, Ursinus

  • April 29, 2008

Making Wikis Work for Scholars

  • April 28, 2008

Winners and Losers in a Funding Shift

  • April 28, 2008

Where Pell Falls Short

  • April 28, 2008

Degree Scandal at West Virginia Fells Provost

  • April 28, 2008

Maintain State Spending. Or Else.

  • April 28, 2008

Quick Takes: Med Schools Urged to Limit Industry Ties, Student Found in Coma at Prof's Home, Bush and Clinton on Student Loans, Wesleyan Students Create Endowment, Mixed Messages on Wikipedia

  • April 28, 2008

New Presidents or Provosts: American U. in Cairo, Benedictine U., Kilian CC, Marquette U., Metropolitan State U., Minnesota State U. Moorhead

  • April 28, 2008

A Defining Election

  • April 25, 2008

Divorce: Grounds for Dismissal

  • April 25, 2008

Validation for RateMyProfessors.com?

  • April 25, 2008

On Texts, Tech and Teens

  • April 25, 2008

Unexpected Departure at Simmons

  • April 25, 2008

Quick Takes: $100 Million for Harvard, Hitler Video Angers North Dakota, Seminary Lays Off Tenured Faculty, Gender Bias and Postdocs, Reversal by Chase on Student Loans, Zebra on Campus

  • April 25, 2008

'Failures of Leadership'

  • April 24, 2008

Data on Minority Doctorates Suppressed

  • April 24, 2008

In S.C., a Native Son Comes Full Circle

  • April 24, 2008

Liberation (of Adjuncts) Theology

  • April 24, 2008

'Graduate Education and the Public Good'

  • April 24, 2008

Quick Takes: White House Backs Purchase of Loans, Creationist Institute Loses Round, New Law Schools Debated, Brown Condemns Pie Attack, Pomona Questions Its Alma Mater, World's Youngest Prof, Jazz Education Group Is Bankrupt, Grateful Dead Archive

  • April 24, 2008

On Secularity

  • April 23, 2008

At U. of Georgia, Furor Over Clarence Thomas

  • April 23, 2008

Senate Panel Proposes No-Cost Help for Lenders

  • April 23, 2008

Emory's Gen Ed Changes

  • April 23, 2008

Loan Forgiveness, Beyond Law and Medicine

  • April 23, 2008

Quick Takes: Students Stick With Obama, GOP Plan on GI Bill, WVU Degree Questioned, UCLA Wins Expansion of Injunction, Parental Expectations, Taser Use Restricted, Filling the Ken Lay Chair, Art Professor Cleared

  • April 23, 2008

Too Catholic, Even for Many Monks

  • April 22, 2008

Joining the Guilds

  • April 22, 2008

Universities' Intellectual Property Stance Criticized

  • April 22, 2008

At One University, Clashing Endorsements

  • April 22, 2008

Quick Takes: U.S. Proposes Fee Hike for Foreign Students, Calif. Students Protest Budget Cuts, Clarence Thomas Invite Roils UGA, $60 Million for Undergraduate Science, B-School Turnover, Terrorism Charges Dropped Against Buffalo Professor, Yale Art Furor

  • April 22, 2008

New Programs: Construction Management, Health and Kinesiology, Theater, Psychology and Child Development, Environmental Studies, Criminal Justice and Nursing

  • April 22, 2008

The Graduation Rate Gap

  • April 21, 2008

A Test the Education Department Doesn’t Love

  • April 21, 2008

Reflections on a Papal Visit

  • April 21, 2008

'Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering'

  • April 21, 2008

Quick Takes: NIU Killer's Application Essays, Double Dipping Alleged, UC Davis Shift on Outsourcing, Vermont Adds Aid, Protest Over Guns at Calvin, Sale of Rare Collection, What MBA Students Value, Women Who Saw, Drafting Bloomberg for (Hopkins) President

  • April 21, 2008

New Presidents or Provosts: Florida Gulf Coast U., Manatee CC, Marylhurst U., Metropolitan State U., Northwest Nazarene U., Quinnipiac U., U. of Southern Mississippi

  • April 21, 2008

The Pope's Positive Message

  • April 18, 2008

Hey, You! Pay Attention!

  • April 18, 2008

The Arrival of 'Merit-Blind Admissions'

  • April 18, 2008

The Role of Responsibility in the Curriculum

  • April 18, 2008

Judicial Review Under Review

  • April 18, 2008

Quick Takes: New Tactic on TA Unions, Miscarriages of Art, Flags on Floor as Art, Bill to Ban Minority Student Groups, Plagiarism Detection for Journals, Crossing the Pond, Cary Nelson Re-Elected, Controversial Approval in Colo., Loan Bill, Green Values

  • April 18, 2008

A Press Revolt Against E-Packet Practices

  • April 17, 2008

Heroin Death Rattles a Campus

  • April 17, 2008

Admissions by Software

  • April 17, 2008

Many Community Colleges Opt Out of Loan Program

  • April 17, 2008

Quick Takes: Obama and Clinton on Affirmative Action, Va. Tech Remembers, Faculty Duties Debated at Texas Tech, Indiana Governor Wants Free Community College, Guidance on Lobbying, Pros and Cons of Loan Bill, CUNY Union Faulted, Queen's U. Chief Quits

  • April 17, 2008

New Programs: Digital Journalism, Sports Management, Equine Studies, Christian Associate Degrees, Forest Management, Business and Public Policy, Biomedical Technology

  • April 17, 2008

A Pentagon Olive Branch to Academe

  • April 16, 2008

One Year Later

  • April 16, 2008

Professors Gone Paperless

  • April 16, 2008

How to Head Off a Potential Student Loan Crisis

  • April 16, 2008

Quick Takes: Publishers Sue Georgia State Over Digital Coursepacks, Guilty Plea in Export Case, McCain on Student Loans, Ghostwriting Seen in Journal Articles, Kentucky Governor Objects to Appointment

  • April 16, 2008

New Presidents or Provosts: Antioch U. Los Angeles, Indiana U-Purdue U. Fort Wayne, Le Moyne College, Northeastern State U., St. Francis College (N.Y.), Santa Barbara City College District, U. of Wisconsin-River Falls, Washington U. in St. Louis

  • April 16, 2008

Margaret Spellings, Where Are You?

  • April 15, 2008

Do Colleges Need Green Czars?

  • April 15, 2008

Fighting Gossip With Graphics

  • April 15, 2008

'Sex and the Soul'

  • April 15, 2008

Quick Takes: Appeals Court Backs Accreditor, Diversity Gains at U. of California, Outbreak of Newspaper Thefts, Hunger Strike in Florida, Debt Relief for Med Students, Rhode Island Eliminates 4 Teams

  • April 15, 2008

Newly Tenured ... at Bowdoin, U. of Maine, Wesleyan

  • April 15, 2008

Faculty Salaries and Priorities

  • April 14, 2008

Growth in International Applicants Slows

  • April 14, 2008

Torture and Tenure

  • April 14, 2008

'Collective Sidestep' on Adjuncts

  • April 14, 2008

Where No Researcher Wants to Be

  • April 14, 2008

A Rare Performance Review Do-Over

  • April 14, 2008

Quick Takes: Sallie Mae Halts Consolidations, Threats Prompt Saint Xavier and Oakland to Shut, Aquinas Uninvites Gay Rights Philosopher, Yale Won't Start Abu Dhabi Campus, Baldwin-Wallace Goes Test-Optional, Public Barred From Diana Musical

  • April 14, 2008

Scars in the Classroom

  • April 11, 2008

Das Ende for German at USC

  • April 11, 2008

Professor for Hire

  • April 11, 2008

Division IV is Dead

  • April 11, 2008

When Students Pay for Convenience

  • April 11, 2008

Quick Takes: Settlement for VT Families, University Bars Tibet Questions for Dalai Lama, Scientists on Drugs, Lafayette Ex-Cop Arrested for Groping Employees, Union Dispute at Wayne State, Maneuvering on GI Bill, Lessons From Mumps Outbreak

  • April 11, 2008

Out of the Money

  • April 10, 2008

'American Higher Education Transformed, 1940-2005'

  • April 10, 2008

An Unlikely Dean

  • April 10, 2008

Pardon Me, but Your Door Is Terribly Offensive

  • April 10, 2008

House Panel Addresses the Would-Be Student Loan Crisis

  • April 10, 2008

Quick Takes: Virginia's New Laws on Campus Safety, Presidents Question NCAA on Beer Ads, Amherst Goes Need-Blind for Foreign Students, Big Gifts for Tufts and Lesley, Indian Supreme Court Upholds Admissions Quotas

  • April 10, 2008

The Seniority Pay Cut

  • April 9, 2008

Revising the Core Curriculum -- at 35 Colleges

  • April 9, 2008

'U.S. News' Adds Surveys That Could Alter Methodology

  • April 9, 2008

Next Chapter for E-Books

  • April 9, 2008

Many Uses for 'New York Times' Distance Ed Venture

  • April 9, 2008

Quick Takes: Anti-Science Bias Seen in Political Science Textbook, How Yale Was Duped, Business Officers Back Cell Phone Tax Reform, Double Dipping in Florida, House Panel to Consider Loan Legislation

  • April 9, 2008

Getting Older Students Into the Mix

  • April 8, 2008

Affirmative Action Challenged Anew

  • April 8, 2008

A Look at Online Orientations

  • April 8, 2008

Mulling Tuition Policy at Community Colleges

  • April 8, 2008

Quick Takes: Davenport Closes Campuses, 5 Professors Win Pulitzers, Bankruptcy for Private Loan Guarantor, Tenure News on YouTube, Champions in Chess and Mock Trial

  • April 8, 2008

New Presidents or Provosts: Green Mountain College, King Abdullah U. of Science and Technology, Lansing CC, Purdue U., Regent U., U. of Massachusetts-Lowell, U. of Richmond, U. of Texas-Arlington

  • April 8, 2008

Winning Hearts and Minds in War on Plagiarism

  • April 7, 2008

College Isn’t Worth a Million Dollars

  • April 7, 2008

Reaching Out to Students in Foster Care

  • April 7, 2008

Distance Ed Continues Rapid Growth at Community Colleges

  • April 7, 2008

Predicting and Preventing Campus Violence

  • April 7, 2008

Quick Takes: Win for Affirmative Action, NBA-NCAA Deal (Update), More Time for Foreign Students, Spellings to Meet Guarantors, Fire Kills 3, Database Stops Blocking 'Abortion,' Riot at Mich. State, Firing Faulted, Bush's Low Grades, YouTube Suspension

  • April 7, 2008

The Foundations of General Education

  • April 4, 2008

What Is a Composition and Rhetoric Doctorate?

  • April 4, 2008

A Plan to Send Engineering Students Abroad

  • April 4, 2008

Key Lawmakers Plan for Student Loan Credit Crunch

  • April 4, 2008

Student Financial Counseling (Outside the Aid Office)

  • April 4, 2008

Quick Takes: New Leader for TIAA-CREF, Admissions Help From Medical Dean, Caution on Plans for World Test, End of 4 AP Courses, Court Win for Student Downloaders, Saint Vincent Faculty Critique, Oberlin Aid for Pell-Eligible, Concerns at St. Mary's

  • April 4, 2008

Early Earful from UC's New Chief

  • April 3, 2008

'Originality, Imitation and Plagiarism'

  • April 3, 2008

Higher Ed Dips Into the Pork Barrel Again

  • April 3, 2008

Rise of the Digital NEH

  • April 3, 2008

Quick Takes: Drop in Bonds Backed by Student Loans, Another Lender Bolts Federal Loan Program, Court Rules for U. of Minn. on Medical Residents' Taxes, Fund Raising Knowledge Faulted, No NYU in Paris, British Students Accept Tuition

  • April 3, 2008

New Presidents or Provosts: American U. of Beirut, Chesapeake College, Minn. Northeast Higher Ed District, Minn. West Community/Tech College, Mount Saint Mary College, Nebraska Wesleyan U., Touro U. Western Division, U. of Mary Washington

  • By Doug Lederman
  • April 3, 2008

Getting Them In, Getting Them Back

  • April 2, 2008

If You Text in Class, This Prof Will Leave

  • April 2, 2008

Comparing Environmental Data

  • April 2, 2008

Court Finds Credence in Ex-Coach's Racial Bias Charge

  • April 2, 2008

Quick Takes: Judge Rejects Ban on Alcohol Ads, Howard Hughes President to Leave, Monroe CC Search Controversy, Interim President Arrested, Courses vs. Bars

  • April 2, 2008

Newly Tenured ... at College of Charleston, Smith, Southwestern, St. Olaf

  • April 2, 2008

Changing the Tenure Rules -- Without Telling Anyone?

  • April 1, 2008

Mixed Picture on Cost Containment

  • April 1, 2008

Ph.D. Completion -- and Content

  • April 1, 2008

Court Upholds U. of California Admissions Requirements

  • April 1, 2008

Documenting China's Higher Ed Explosion

  • April 1, 2008

Quick Takes: Violence Threat Shuts Exhibit, Walkout at Hampshire, Double Standard Alleged, Grand Jury Probes Noose Incident, Furor Over Ashcroft Visit to Skidmore, Ohio Higher Ed Reforms, UMass Online in China, Apologies at Lehigh, British Prodigies

  • April 1, 2008
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