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The Missing Students
More than half of the most talented potential applicants from low-income families never apply to a competitive college, study finds. And admissions officers may be looking for them in the wrong places.
Digital Badging for Veterans
New website creates digital badges for veterans, aiming to recognize military skills and training. Will it be the first badging experiment to catch on?
Fixing Humanities Grad Programs
Michael Bérubé tells graduate school deans that the issues are complicated and interconnected.
Gender Equity and Rankings
Should ratings consider institutions' hiring and pay gaps for female academics?
Scrambling to Understand Veterans
Colleges aren't doing a good job of tracking how current and former military service members are faring on their campuses, a new survey finds, but that may be changing.
Assessing Research Impact
Australian government plans to shift from measuring the quality of publicly funded studies alone to gauging their social, economic and environmental impact, too.
The (Needless?) Frenzy
Survey finds applications are up, applications per student are up and old formulas about who will enroll don't work anymore. But for all the hysteria on admissions, study documents that most colleges still admit most applicants.
Research Spending, Before the Cliff
University spending on R&D rose by 6.9 percent in 2011, driven mostly by funds from federal stimulus. With budget cuts in offing, figures may represent a peak.