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Top Students Shun Teaching
Teacher training programs in Australia are attracting fewer and fewer of the brightest students entering the country's universities.
Holding Off on Gay Faculty
Pressure grows at Mennonite institutions to end ban on hiring non-straight professors. Eastern Mennonite U., which many hoped was about to shift, declines to do so. But it leaves in place suspension of policy.
More 'Intentionality' Needed
Adjuncts became the majority teaching force haphazardly over many decades, participants at TIAA-CREF symposium say. Now it's time to focus on creating better ways to employ the non-tenured.
Opinion
A Question for Every Answer
David N. DeVries considers what it means to live a life grounded in the liberal arts.
A College Loses Accreditation
Southern accreditor strips its approval from Georgia's Brewton-Parker College, and places four others -- Louisiana, Newberry and Paine Colleges and South Carolina State -- on probation.
A Win for Free Speech
U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously that a community college employee had First Amendment protection when he testified under oath about an Alabama legislator's no-show job.
Have Aspirations, Will Travel
Survey suggests students in fully online programs are motivated by furthering their careers -- and that they will look outside their home states to do so.
Complex Problem, Complex Solution
Colorado's fix for remedial education is multipronged rather than heavy-handed, and it seems to be working.