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Montreal University Defends Another Presidential Departure
Board members at Montreal's Concordia University, after two weeks of silence, acknowledged Monday that they had forced out their second...
Students Crave Self-Esteem Boosts Above All, Research Finds
A new study in the Journal of Personality finds that college students crave boosts in self-esteem -- such as receiving...
JSTOR Plans to Add Full-Length Books to Its Offerings
The subscription-based research database JSTOR, which contains backlogs of scholarly articles going back centuries, has announced plans to begin adding...
Academic Minute: Missile Defense
In today’s Academic Minute, Pepperdine University's Robert Kaufman explores the need for continued research into missile defense. Find out more...
500 Students Told (Incorrectly) That They Flunked Out
California State University at Los Angeles incorrectly told about 500 students that their grades were too low to allow them...
Rowan Pays President $600,000 to Leave Early
Rowan University has agreed to pay Donald Farish, who had announced plans to leave when his contract expires in June...
Academic Minute: Polluted Rivers and Restoring Them
In today's Academic Minute, Elena Traister of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts looks at the state of America’s polluted...
Israeli Academics Call for Boycott of West Bank University
More than 150 senior Israeli academics have signed a petition calling for an academic boycott of the Ariel University Center...