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U. of Rochester Adopts 'Test-Flexible' Admissions Policy
The University of Rochester has announced that it will no longer require all undergraduate applicants to submit either the SAT...
Gates Seeks Development of Remedial Ed MOOCs
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation today announced it was seeking proposals for the creation of massive open online courses...
Priority Enrollment Plan Adopted for California 2-Year Colleges
The governing board for California's 112 community colleges on Monday approved a policy of systemwide priority enrollment for students who...
Top B-Schools See Application Declines
Demand to earn an M.B.A. isn't what it once was, and top business schools are as a result seeing declines...
Iran vs. Iranian Studies Association
The Middle East Studies Association of North American has written to senior Iranian officials asking them to stop official newspapers...
Academic Minute: Stress and Pregnancy
In today’s Academic Minute, Janet Currie of Princeton University reveals the link between a woman’s exposure to stress during pregnancy...
A Better Start for Community College Transfers
As more colleges -- public and private -- are coming to rely on community college transfers, four-year institutions are doing...
Jane Austen's Impact on the Brain
Stanford University researchers are using MRI images to study the brain patterns of literary Ph.D. candidates while they read Jane...