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Academic Minute: Robot Skin
In today’s Academic Minute, Anna Balazs of the University of Pittsburgh explains how a synthetic material could provide robots with...
Purdue's Pick for President Ends Plan for $1M Bequest
Marilyn Haring, dean of the College of Education at Purdue University from 1991 to 2001, is so upset by the...
Interest Rate Hike Averted
On the last business day before the interest rate was scheduled to double on new federally subsidized student loans, Congress...
Where Competency-Based Degree Programs Work
In a new report the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning describes various "showcase" models of competency-based degree programs, which...
New Jersey Legislators Approve Higher Ed Restructuring
New Jersey legislators on Thursday approved a plan that would merge most of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of...
2 Faculty Bargaining Units Certified at Illinois-Chicago
The Illinois Labor Relations Board has certified the University of Illinois at Chicago United Faculty Union as the exclusive bargaining...
Implications for Colleges in Decision on Health Law
The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision Thursday to uphold most parts of the Affordable Care Act, the health care law passed...
Texas GOP vs. Critical Thinking
The 2012 platform of the Texas Republican Party contains a number of provisions raising eyebrows among Texas academics. For instance...