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Aborted Speech
Citing death threats, Hamilton calls off a planned talk by a Boulder professor. Colorado's governor seeks his resignation.
New Tools to Take On Diploma Mills
Regulating diploma mills is a little like herding cats. The institutions, which offer fraudulent degrees in exchange for cash and...
Spanked Out of Grad School
An education student wrote a paper last semester advocating corporal punishment; now Le Moyne College won't let him enroll.
Lender's Lawsuit Lives Again
A federal appeals court on Monday breathed new life into a long-running legal battle between two competing student loan companies...
Unearthing 'McCarthyism at Harvard'
It's rare for a publication to print letters to the editor about articles published more than 25 years ago. But...
Rising Faculty Star: Alison Farmer
"Rising Faculty Star" features e-mail interviews with up-and-coming young professors about their backgrounds, their work and their career arcs, among...
Historians Define Themselves
A discipline attempts to explain its values -- while also trying to teach students not to plagiarize.
Keeping Freshmen Around
After freshmen go home for their December break, a major concern for many institutions of higher education is making sure...