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Is the NFL a Model for College Admissions?
Could the National Football League offer a model for reforming college admissions? A paper being released today by the Center...
Panel Highlights Divisions in Higher Education Act Renewal
WASHINGTON — A panel discussion at the Council for Higher Education Accreditation's annual conference here Tuesday highlighted differences between Senate...
Academic Minute: Humor and Tragedy
In today’s Academic Minute, Peter McGraw of the University of Colorado at Boulder explores what makes jokes about tragic events...
Fund-Raisers Predict Return to Pre-Recession Levels
College and university fund-raisers predict that giving to their institutions grew by an average of 5.5 percent in 2012, according...
Shared Governance Feud in California Continues
The new chancellor of California's community colleges, Brice W. Harris, has written in opposition to a legal challenge to the...
Cedarville U. Eliminates Philosophy Major
The Board of Trustees at Cedarville University, a Baptist college in Ohio recently shaken by intradenominational arguments and the resignation...
$100M for Engineering at U. of Illinois
The Grainger Foundation has pledged $100 million for engineering programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The funds will...
Bipartisan Push for Immigration Reform
A blueprint for an eventual overhaul of the nation's immigration system, announced Monday by a bipartisan group of eight senators...