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Senate Panel Plans Another (Contested) Hearing on For-Profit Colleges
The U.S. Senate's education panel will hold another in a series of hearings about for-profit colleges next week -- and...
Cornell Proposes Nets for Gorge Bridges
Cornell University has proposed replacing temporary fences on the bridges over gorges that are omnipresent on the campus with wire...
Law Graduate Sues Over Allegedly Flawed Placement Data
The question of whether law schools are adequately preparing their graduates for jobs after graduation -- and accurately informing them...
Academic Minute: Acid Rain
In today’s Academic Minute, Peter Black, of the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry, draws...
AFT Endorses Practices to Promote Gender Diversity in Faculty
The American Federation of Teachers released a report Tuesday on how colleges, universities and faculty unions can help recruit and...
Follow the F Grades
A community college examines courses with the highest failure rates, and changes a series of policies.
The Pulse: Blackboard's Ray Henderson (Part II)
The new edition of The Pulse podcast features the second part of an interview with Ray Henderson, president of Blackboard...
The E-Reader Effect
Some university presses are seeing surges in digital book sales since the New Year — especially in backlist titles with little marketing support.