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'Losing It'
New book takes a tragicomic look at aging in literature and academe.
Teaching Large
When classes of 100 are common, and it takes 500 to be considered "ultra-large," can instructors connect with students?
Language Problem
Enrollment growth in Middle Eastern language programs is slowing. For modern Hebrew, numbers are down.
Adjunct Promotion at a For-Profit
Grand Canyon University hires 98 adjuncts as full-time online professors in an attempt to boost student retention and faculty satisfaction.
Scholarly 'Self-Abasement'
Hundreds of professors who study India condemn Oxford University Press for response to controversy over an essay -- a response scholars call part of a pattern of "shocking acts" that hurt research.
Working Into the Sunset
Survey finds many higher education employees feel overwhelmed and underprepared when it comes to planning for retirement, with almost half reporting they will never retire.
Another Koch Grant Questioned
Whitman professors find it inappropriate that the foundation, following a grant for a lecture, requested students' e-mail addresses.
Taxes, Not Death, for Humanities
Study suggests that private colleges with many such programs may pay a price in tuition and research revenues.