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Giving to Penn State Is Second-Highest Ever, but Future Donations Down
Pennsylvania State University fund-raisers took in $208 million in the 2011-12 academic year, the second-most in institutional history, despite spending...
University Applications Fall Sharply in Britain
A year after the British government essentially tripled tuitions, applications for university spots fell by nearly 9 percent in Britain...
Adjuncts Get Some Support From the NEA
Adjunct instructors are getting some help (rhetorically, at least) from the country’s largest education union. The National Education Association’s Representative...
Academic Minute: Understanding Volcanic Plumbing
In today’s Academic Minute, Cynthia Ebinger of the University of Rochester explains the connection between earthquakes, volcanism, and the changing...
For-Profit UniversityNow Buys Nonprofit Patten U.
The parent company of competency-based New Charter University is today announcing that it has bought Patten University, a regionally accredited...
The Pulse: Managing Your Social Media Portfolio
In this month's edition of The Pulse podcast, Rod Murray discusses how to manage your social media portfolio with the...
Movers and Shakers: Bloomsburg U. of Pennsylvania, Columbia College Chicago, Columbus College of Art & Design, Emerson College, McDaniel College, U. of Maryland-College Park
Jane E. Clark, professor of kinesiology at the University of Maryland at College Park, has been named dean of the...
Tough Job Market for Science Ph.D.s
President Obama and many educators are encouraging more American students to earn advanced degrees in science, but the jobs may...