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Applications Increase/Hype Season in Full Swing
Applications are up! It's that time of year; the press is full of reports about colleges -- mostly the elites...
Unusual Critique of Recent University Purchases of Artifacts
Several Christian institutions have in recent months announced purchases of fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Robert Cargill, instructional technology...
Outsourcing Language Learning
A decade after Drake U. pioneered system favoring native speakers over traditional faculty, a few other colleges are trying the approach and the university is taking its concept online.
Tenure Case Hinges on Collegiality
Faced with charges that he's acted as a "bully" and sought revenge on colleagues who opposed him, a journalism professor at Ohio U. may sacrifice academe's coveted credential.
Tennessee Legislators Approve Higher Ed Reform Bill
Tennessee legislators have approved legislation -- expected to soon be signed into law -- that would ease the transfer of...
Students' 'Episodic' Engagement
WASHINGTON -- Jim comes to college with big academic ambitions, struggles with his grades as he balances course work with...
H1N1: New Cases Down, Vaccinations Up
Colleges in a tracking project of the American College Health Association are continuing to report fewer new cases of H1N1...
2 People, 1 Job, 36 Years
Husband-and-wife historians at Earlham have spent more than three decades sharing a job.