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The Tenure-Track (Busy) Sociologist
A discipline finds that -- unlike much of higher education -- it is not increasing its reliance on adjuncts, but is seeing the permanent faculty's teaching load go up.
Leon Kass Named to Deliver Jefferson Lecture
Leon R. Kass, a bioethicist, was named Monday by the National Endowment for the Humanities to give the 2009 Jefferson...
IIE Releases Report on Study Abroad and STEM
The Institute of International Education on Monday released a paper on promoting study abroad in science and technology fields, the...
Downturn Prompts Minnesota-Crookston to End Hockey
Hockey is to Minnesota as football is to Alabama and basketball to North Carolina -- and not easily trifled with...
Movement to Ban Bottled Water Hits Canada
The University of Winnipeg, carrying out the results of a student vote, will ban bottled water from the campus. Winnipeg...
Mid-Level Administrator Pay Up 3.5%
Private college officials fare better than those at publics; doctoral university staff see smaller raises than those in others sectors.
Newly Tenured ... at Carleton, Concordia Chicago, Gettysburg
The following individuals have recently been awarded tenure by their colleges: Carleton College --Eric S. Egge, mathematics,--Baird Jarman, art history--Daniela...