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Business and the Liberal Arts
The best preparation for life and career -- be it in finance, entrepreneurship or something else -- is a liberal arts degree, writes Edgar M. Bronfman.
Smoking Loophole
Colleges are trying to decide whether e-cigarettes should be banned as part of campus tobacco-free policies.
Blast from the Past
A former U. of Virginia grad student organizes petition to revoke invitation to Arianna Huffington to campus, citing allegations that she copied a former professor's work on Picasso.
Antitrust for the NCAA?
A sports reform group pitches federal legislation to enable colleges to collaboratively cut sports costs and increase emphasis on education and athlete welfare.
'Schooled'
College sports come at an increasingly pricey cost -- in terms of money, education and morality -- but that's not stopping institutions from paying up, a new documentary argues.
New Faces of Civic Learning
More community and commuter colleges are striving to get students involved in civic engagement projects and courses, which have traditionally thrived at residential campuses.
Union Impact and Non-Impact
Study comparing grad students with and without collective bargaining for their teaching work finds that those with unions have better pay, and that they are just as close to their professors as those on other campuses.
Shift on Grad Unions
NYU offers to permit election on collective bargaining for teaching assistants, but not for research assistants. Move marks shift for university, but union leader says it is based on "arbitrary distinctions."