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Get Me a Med School! Stat!
Several prominent universities, driven by revenue and prestige concerns, are building or merging with medical schools at a furious pace.
Critical Mass
About 10 percent of black computer science professors and Ph.D. students nationwide are at Clemson, thanks in large part to the work of one professor.
Opinion
Talkin' 'Bout My Generation
Berkeley and Mario Savio are typically held up as the higher ed symbols of the '60s. John Thelin argues that Mitt Romney and Harvard's M.B.A./J.D. program complete the portrait.
Not So Fast
Key faculty panel issues scathing report that could stand in the way of UCLA business school's controversial "self-sufficiency" plan -- an idea that critics view as privatization.
Opinion
Real Teacher Ed Reform
Significant changes, based on true assessment, are going on right now, led by the profession, writes Linda Darling-Hammond, who urges critics to check out what's really happening.
You Can't Fire Me. I Quit.
Saint Louis U. law dean resigns with scathing attack on president -- raising anew tensions over whether universities treat law schools like cash cows.
A Cadaver, Facebook, Free Speech
State Supreme Court upholds right of University of Minnesota to punish mortuary science student for online posts, but ruling is narrow, easing concerns of civil liberties groups.
Commencement and Evolution
Some Emory students and faculty are concerned because their graduation speaker, a noted surgeon and humanitarian, is a creationist.