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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.
Competing With Publics on Price
Two private colleges create or expand programs that lower tuition for students who are admitted to local state universities.
So Many Students, So Little Time
Higher Ed Holdings' recent efforts to partner with one university were thwarted amid faculty outcry. At other universities, however, the company's model is going forward -- raising concerns about whether mass education online is coming at the expense of individual interaction, and evaluations based on essays as opposed to multiple choice.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Questions About $50M Grant for Texas A
Texas lawmakers are questioning the authority under which Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, moved funds from one state fund to...