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In Search of Evidence, and Acceptance
In proposed research center, for-profit college leaders seek ways to answer fundamental question: Do their institutions expand access or exploit students?
Commencement Speakers Announced: Duke, High Point, Rice, RIT
The following colleges and universities have announced their commencement speakers: Duke University: Muhammad Yunus, Nobel laureate and a Bangladeshi banker/economist...
Education Secretary Criticizes Education Colleges
In a speech at the University of Virginia on Friday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan called for more Americans to consider...
Community Colleges Praised for Technology Efforts
The e.Republic Center for Digital Education and Converge Magazine last week named the most technology-savvy community colleges in the country...
SNL Spoofs Ads of a Certain For-Profit University
Notice a lot of advertising from for-profit universities of late? Apparently so did the producers at "Saturday Night Live." This...
Nobel in Economics Goes to Scholars at Indiana, Berkeley
The 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics will be shared by Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson. Ostrom, professor of...
Health Plans Faulted for Inattention to College Students
A nonpartisan group of student health experts issued a statement Saturday warning that none of the major proposals under consideration...
One Accreditor's Opinion
A United States District Court judge argued that accrediting agencies should be “afforded great deference in their interpretation of their...