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Journalism Center a Target
Wisconsin lawmakers introduced a motion that would expel the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from the UW-Madison campus and bar university employees from working with the nonprofit.
The Mom Penalty
A decadelong research initiative out of the University of California at Berkeley culminates in a detailed look at the effects of children on men's and women's academic careers.
'Mothers in Academia'
Editors discuss themes of new collection of essays on challenges faced by academic women with children.
Opinion
Competence, Technology, and Their Discontents
Higher education is buzzing about competency-based education. We've been here before, writes Clifford Adelman, and the question this time is: Will we make it mean something?
How To Provide Open Access?
As the Obama administration works on a policy to provide free access to taxpayer-funded research, publishers and universities advance competing plans for archives -- but some scholars say a government archive is the way to go.
Split Decision
When Transylvania University's president deferred tenure for two professors based on criteria that had yet to take effect, it was the last straw for the already-frustrated faculty.
'Does Science Need a Global Language?'
New book argues that English has become the global language of science -- and that, on balance, it's a good thing.
Opinion
Billion-Dollar Boondoggle?
Universities shouldn't be competing to host the next presidential libraries, but should be working to reform the concept of presidential libraries, writes Ben Hufbauer.