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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.
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.
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.
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.
Exploding the Lecture
Central Michigan U. professor tries improving his presentations by taking them outside the classroom, then blowing them to pieces.
Smart Management?
Dominican faculty leaders praise a decentralized approach to administration.
CLA as 'Catalyst for Change'
Report finds that use of standardized measure of student learning drove curricular innovations at consortium of private colleges -- but produced little (so far) in measurable improvement.