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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.
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Job crisis broadens. After MLA reports collapsing market for language professors, history and economics groups reveal huge drops in faculty positions.
Tweetup at the MLA
PHILADELPHIA -- A tweetup -- that is, a gathering of Twitter users -- tends to be a casual affair, more...