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'Quiet Desperation' of Academic Women
Interviews with 80 female faculty members at a research university -- the largest qualitative study of its kind -- have...
Is Hyde Park the New Cambridge (for Mocking Liberal Academics)?
Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, but Republicans are focusing in on his Chicago neighborhood -- and its famous university -- as the way to tag him as liberal. What would Saul Bellow say?
Red Bulls and Risky Behavior
In wake of publication suggesting a link, campus health experts assess whether students who consume energy drinks are more likely to engage in other dangerous activities.
'The Last Professors'
Two much-discussed trends in academe -- the adoption of corporate values and the decline in the percentage of faculty jobs...
Not Our Best and Brightest?
To head American University of Iraq, officials picked someone who resigned previous presidency amid harassment allegations. His tenure in Iraq was short-lived.
Inquiry Into Alleged Anti-Asian Bias Expands
Education Department converts complaint of one rejected applicant to Princeton into a broad "compliance review" of the university's admissions system.