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In the Crosshairs?
Panel appointed by Education Department to consider new rules on financial aid "integrity" tilts toward critics of for-profit higher education.
Can Free Speech Be Furloughed?
The day after a peaceful protest over budget conditions at a California community college, four professors -- including a union president -- are placed on leave and banned from campus.
Panel Says Not to Fire Idaho State Faculty Member
Idaho State University lacks sufficient evidence to justify the termination of a tenured professor charged with a pattern of abusive...
Professor to Quit After Losing Fight With U. of Alaska
A marine conservationist who has battled with -- and, it appears, lost to -- the University of Alaska and National...
South African University Reconsiders Controversial Decision
The University of the Free State, a South African institution, has been facing intense criticism over an announcement that it...
Turning Surveys Into Reforms
10 years after launch of National Survey of Student Engagement, many worry that colleges have been speedier to embrace giving the questionnaire than using its results. And some experts want changes in what the survey measures.
Faculty at U. of Oregon Consider a Union
Faculty members at the University of Oregon -- frustrated by their salary levels and dealings with the administration -- have...
Harvard Investigates Coffee Poisoning
Harvard University is investigating how a coffee maker in one of its medical school buildings became tainted with a potentially...