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Commencement Speakers Announced: Bates, Benedictine, Berkshire CC, Centre, Dartmouth, Dominican, Gettysburg, Grand Valley, Grinnell, Liberty, Randolph-Macon, SUNY Albany, U. of Mary Washington, West Virginia Wesleyan
The following colleges and universities have announced their commencement speakers for spring 2012: Bates College: Bonnie L. Bassler, chair of...
Portland State Suspends Grad Student After Alleged Threats
Portland State University warned students and employees on Thursday that it had suspended a graduate student and barred him from...
Penn Dean Resigns Over Doctoral Degree Claim
The vice dean of the University of Pennsylvania's graduate school of education resigned Thursday, a day after Penn officials placed...
Playoff Likely -- College Football Leaders Use the 'P' Word
The conference commissioners and other college football bigwigs who run the Bowl Championship Series emerged from a three-day meeting saying...
Linguistic Similarities of Hebrew and Arabic
In today’s Academic Minute, Cornell University's Ross Brann traces the similarities of Hebrew and Arabic to a time when they...
Talking the Talk
To move the conversation about the future of liberal arts colleges forward, several presidents say new forums -- some open, some closed -- are needed.
Should Debt Outlive a Student?
KeyBank, an outlier in the lending industry, for years required the co-signing parent of one dead student to make payments on $50,000 of debt. The bank acquiesced after an online petition went viral.
Northern Virginia CC Teams Up with U. of Phoenix
Northern Virginia Community College is the latest two-year institution to announce a partnership with the University of Phoenix, with the...