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Bucking the Trend
While other colleges have cut adjuncts' hours to avoid insurance mandates ahead of the Affordable Care Act taking effect, College of DuPage is offering some adjuncts coverage under a new "lecturer" designation.
Where Philosophy Meets Theology
The influx of money for philosophy research from the religiously inclined Templeton Foundation has raised some eyebrows in the discipline.
Pretext for Firing a Dissenter
Australian court threatens $2 million fine for university after concluding that it used finances as excuse to dismiss a professor for complaining about bullying tactics by her supervisor.
The Digital Sociology Classroom
Departments are offering online courses and making use of new tools for teaching, survey finds.
Less Academically Adrift?
Challenging findings of landmark 2011 study, new data suggest that college students make significantly bigger gains in critical thinking. But differences in methodology may contribute to the differing conclusions.
Missing the (Grade) Point
Study challenges assumption that professors have become more lenient in evaluating students, or that their grades have less "signaling" power. Another researcher challenges paper as inaccurate.
'Redshirting' in Engineering
U. of Colorado at Boulder pioneered idea of giving some students an extra year, and now other universities are adopting the model.
Confusion on State Authorization
Education Department will delay enforcing a rule that requires states to submit evidence that colleges are authorized to operate within their borders -- and that could end colleges' aid eligibility if states don't do so.