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Academic Minute: Missile Defense
In today’s Academic Minute, Pepperdine University's Robert Kaufman explores the need for continued research into missile defense. Find out more...
JSTOR Plans to Add Full-Length Books to Its Offerings
The subscription-based research database JSTOR, which contains backlogs of scholarly articles going back centuries, has announced plans to begin adding...
Strategic Displacement
Under “10 percent plan” in Texas, some switched high schools to get into top colleges. White students gained and minority students lost.
Students Crave Self-Esteem Boosts Above All, Research Finds
A new study in the Journal of Personality finds that college students crave boosts in self-esteem -- such as receiving...
Montreal University Defends Another Presidential Departure
Board members at Montreal's Concordia University, after two weeks of silence, acknowledged Monday that they had forced out their second...
'Sad Day For California'
A draconian budget plan laid out Monday by California Gov. Jerry Brown would slash higher education along with other already...
Business Metaphor Still Ascendant
Historians lament "crisis" in higher education -- and many blame a corporate-minded ethos.
Organizing Adjuncts at a Catholic College
NLRB ruling backs collective bargaining at Manhattan, rejecting claims that unionization would infringe on its religious identity.