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The Great Conference Confusion
The landscape of college athletics could shift dramatically in the coming weeks, as the Big Ten and Pacific-10 Conferences consider...
Good News for Endangered Philosophy Program
There may be hope for a key research team in philosophy at Britain's Middlesex University. Times Higher Education reported that...
Black Mark for BYU
Brigham Young University's Independent Study program appears to be wildly successful. At any given time, students are taking more than...
Faith and Freedom
Canada -- a country with a tradition of academic freedom and strong faculty unions -- is having a major debate...
Stanford Follows Berkeley on Student DNA Tests
Just weeks after the University of California, Berkeley made national headlines by asking incoming undergraduates to submit genetic samples for...
Eastern Washington Provost Quits in Advance of No Confidence Vote
John Mason, Eastern Washington University’s provost, resigned last week, days before the Faculty Senate was to hold a no confidence...
Roadblocks to College Dreams
Two articles look at how easy it is for students' path to college to be derailed by issues of paperwork...
U. of Dubuque Backs Off Idea of Buying Alaska Campus
The University of Dubuque has abandoned plans to buy part of the campus of Sheldon Jackson College, an Alaska institution...