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Not-So-Final Exam

What if a professor gives a test and accidentally gives out the answers -- but only to some students?

Fireable Tweets

Months after a professor's comments on Twitter set off a controversy, Kansas Board of Regents adopts policy on when professors and other employees can be fired for "improper use of social media."
Opinion

Class Warfare in Academe

Peter D.G. Brown considers the real winners and real fatalities of the academic workforce.

Scaling Back in San Jose

University will offer a new round of the courses it created with Udacity -- but this time as regular college classes.

Another Push for Embargoes

Second history organization comes out against requirement that all dissertations be made available online.

Policy Denied

Santa Clara U.'s Faculty Senate has deemed the administration's new exclusion of elective abortions from insurance coverage "invalid," and wants the Board of Trustees to take up the matter.
Opinion

The Great Bookie

Mortimer Adler built a publishing empire around the Great Books of the Western World. Scott McLemee interviews an author who has mapped its terrain.

Backing the Israel Boycott

American Studies Association members vote by a two-to-one margin to endorse the boycott of Israeli universities.