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Hype and Hope at Labor College
Ambitious online partnership between National Labor College and the Princeton Review ends, but big investment from the education company may help keep college viable.
Dropping F-Bombs
Two staffers at Oberlin, working off hours, created website promoting their alma mater. Every line features a word most colleges would never use in their marketing.
E-Book, In-House
American Public University System taps professors to write e-textbooks. The move could be a cost-saving innovation, but will raise hackles among publishers and some faculty members.
Freeing Up Graduates
Louisville seminary, concerned about debt burden for graduates entering low-paying fields, will give full scholarships to all master's students by 2015.
Kentucky Showdown
Attorney general Jack Conway has taken on for-profit colleges in a big way -- and some of their leaders are donating to his opponent. But will his multi-state investigation run out of steam?
Reinventing the Wheel
As political scientists debate whether their field knows how to diversify and to study those lacking power, Wheelock tries a different approach to the discipline.
Sex, Booze Survive at Catholic U.
Students covered by policy keeping frosh men living separately from frosh women see no shortage of the activities the rules were designed to scale back.
Renew or Dismiss?
Luzerne County Community College is on probation with its accreditor, in part because of concerns about leadership. But the president, who was hired without a search, may have his contract renewed.