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Law School Co-Deans: 'Like a Marriage'
Over the last few years, universities started appointing two deans to lead their law schools temporarily. Now, a few are going that route with permanent appointments.
When RPI Banned Protest, It Became a Class
What started as a movement about changes to the student union turned into a debate about free speech.
Competency for the Traditional-Age Student
Accreditor approves Purdue's new competency-based bachelor's degree, which blends technical disciplines with the humanities and has a customizable approach designed more for a career than a first job.
New Presidents or Provosts: Eastern Maine CC, Marygrove College, Pitzer College, Southern College of Optometry, State Center CC District, Taylor U, U of Maine-Fort Kent, Westminster College (Pa.)
Elizabeth Burns, interim provost of Marygrove College, in Michigan, has been selected as president there. Paul Lowell Haines, a partner...
'Lesson Plan'
Two former college presidents, both longtime scholars of higher education, discuss their new book on the problems -- real and imagined -- facing academe.
New Presidents or Provosts: Cazenovia College, Chamberlain College of Nursing-Houston, Cuyahoga CC-Western, National U, Southern Methodist U, U of Maine-Fort Kent, U of Texas-Austin
David W. Andrews, dean and professor of Johns Hopkins University School of Education, in Maryland, has been named president of...
Accreditation Outside the Academy
As boot camps, online courses and other nontraditional academic offerings expand, several organizations angle to play an accreditor-like role in the growing space.
New Presidents or Provosts: Baker College System, Brock U, California State U-Long Beach, Drake U, National U, Old Dominion U, St. Mary's U, Whitman College
Augustine (Austin) O. Agho, dean of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, has been...