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Making Teaching a Profession
Accreditor of education colleges could look toward medicine, nursing to find a new model for teaching.
U. of Cambridge Plans First Big Bond Offering
Following in the footsteps of its wealthy peers across the Atlantic, the University of Cambridge plans to raise £400 million...
Ivies Force Cornell to Modify Aid for Athletes
Cornell University, in the face of opposition from the Ivy League, has stopped including athletes in a financial aid enhancement...
Threats Against 2 Irvine Professors
Two professors at the University of California at Irvine received envelopes Monday with the words "Black Death" written on them...
New Player on Capitol Hill? Playoff PAC
What's a cause without a political action committee? With the college football bowl season at its apex, critics of the...
Proof That Mentoring Matters
Study of economists -- complete with control group -- shows impact of coaching women on the process or getting published and winning grants.
Role Models and Stereotypes
Study both backs up and challenges conventional wisdom about whether presence of female faculty members influences female students' choice of major.
Are American Students Lazy?
Adjunct's column, comparing them unfavorably to her foreign students, sets off debate over work ethic.