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No Love for Accreditation
Congressional panel hears from accreditors and their critics, and appears to sympathize with the latter.
'It's My Business'
Cary Nelson warns that MOOCs could lead to erosion of faculty members' intellectual property rights.
Adjunct Win at Religious College
NLRB official, rejecting stance of Pacific Lutheran U., says non-tenure-track faculty members have right to vote on collective bargaining.
Nominee for Civil Rights
Beginning to fill a long list of Education Department vacancies, Catherine Lhamon, a California lawyer, is picked as assistant secretary for civil rights.
Holding Colleges Responsible
Student activists have shined a national spotlight on sexual assault on campuses, but others are encouraging colleges to fight back against federal rules they say are overreaching.
Scholars as 'Foreign Agents'
New Russian law requiring NGOs to register as "foreign agents" if they receive funding from foreign sources and are engaged in "political activity" threatens closure of an independent polling agency and raises concerns about climate for scholarly collaborations.
Unprofessional Tenure Denial?
American U. says it has track for those with non-academic careers who want to join the faculty. A suit charges that the university only values traditional academic credentials.
Wiggle Room for Political Science?
NSF issues guidance on how it will carry out Congressional orders to restrict funding of the discipline, and the agency leaves the door open to new grants.