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'What Matters Most'
New book urges colleges to exercise not-so-common sense when it comes to optimizing the undergraduate experience and otherwise striving toward institutional excellence.
Racial Literacy as a Professor's Responsibility
AAUP sessions center on faculty members' role and responsibilities regarding classroom conversations about race.
A Brave Provost
Washington State U provost helps to raise money for a bee research center by growing a beard … of bees.
Safeguarding Free Speech
City University of New York is considering a new policy that it says will protect academic freedom, but some fear it could be used to squelch dissent.
'Field Notes'
Author discusses his new book on the evolution of Middle East studies in specific and area studies more broadly.
No Math Required
Wayne State University drops what has been part of its general-education program for all students, raising the question of which fields are needed by all undergraduates.
Getting Tough With a Gatekeeper
Education Department staff proposes termination for ACICS, threatening access to federal aid for the 243 institutions -- many of them for-profit -- the national accreditor oversees. Updated with reactions.
Presidential Perks
New study on compensation for leaders of state colleges and universities finds costs for bonuses and other expensive benefits are growing.