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'Sad Day For California'
A draconian budget plan laid out Monday by California Gov. Jerry Brown would slash higher education along with other already...
The Web of Babel
Online-only language courses might be controversial, but some have found Web 2.0 to be a boon for language instruction.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mentoring 101
Guiding undergraduate students can be personally rewarding and support good teaching, a panel of historians notes. So why is it left to chance?
Literary Détente
Group created to be the anti-MLA and guardian of traditional literary analysis holds sessions and builds new relationship with ... the MLA.