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Researchers' Financial Disclosures in the Spotlight
Conflicts of interest, always an emotional topic, returned to the headlines this week as Sen. Charles Grassley, a longtime critic...
Rescuing a College in Cleveland
Investor's bid to bail out a financially ailing business institution in the Ohio city offers hope but also carries risks -- arguably for all involved.
'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...