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Newly Tenured ... at Bowdoin, U. of Maine, Wesleyan
The following individuals have recently been awarded tenure by their colleges: Bowdoin College Dallas G. Denery II, history Kristen R...
Margaret Spellings, Where Are You?
Meeting of North Central accreditor shows how much colleges are doing to measure student learning. But will all the assessment satisfy federal calls for accountability?
Fighting Gossip With Graphics
In light of JuicyCampus and other phenomena, Princeton students take a novel approach to combating what they see as a harmful climate of anonymous innuendo.
Torture and Tenure
Civil liberties group organizes campaign to have controversial legal scholar fired. Some academics who find his views repulsive line up to defend him.
Where No Researcher Wants to Be
U.S. senator singles out U. of Cincinnati psychiatrist as symbol of what's wrong with corporate entanglements in biomedical science.
'Collective Sidestep' on Adjuncts
Accreditors have many detailed rules that they expect colleges to meet -- requirements that relate to courses, faculties, facilities, money...
Faculty Salaries and Priorities
AAUP points to gaps in pay for professors and presidents, and sees decline against inflation, but method of calculating total increase is questioned.