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The Battle of Pittsburgh Continues
Pittsburgh's City Council on Wednesday voted to delay by one week a final decision on the idea of a 1...
CBO Scores Alternative Loan Plan as Saving $75 Billion
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that a legislative alternative to President Obama's plan to end student lending through the...
U.S. Approves New Stem Cell Lines for Researchers
The National Institutes of Health said on Wednesday that it had approved 13 new "lines" of embryonic stem cells to...
Advice for Trustees on Conflicts of Interest
This won't be news to anyone in Illinois, but college trustees and regents need to pay attention to conflicts of...
Global Competition for Doctorates ... and Hockey
The economic downturn has led some leading American universities to scale back Ph.D. programs, but other countries are moving in...
NSF Report Recounts Scientific Misconduct Findings
A semi-annual report to Congress by the National Science Foundation's Office of the Inspector General documents five new cases of...
Yoga Instructors Sue to Block Virginia Regulation
Yoga instructors went to federal court on Tuesday, seeking to block the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia from...
Loan Debt Is Focus of 2 New Reports
Student advocacy groups published two studies Tuesday that draw attention to student loan debt at a time when the economy...