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Growth in International Applicants Slows
Number of foreign applicants to U.S. graduate programs increased by only 3 percent this year, survey shows, while about a third of schools saw declines.
Faculty Salaries and Priorities
AAUP points to gaps in pay for professors and presidents, and sees decline against inflation, but method of calculating total increase is questioned.
'Collective Sidestep' on Adjuncts
Accreditors have many detailed rules that they expect colleges to meet -- requirements that relate to courses, faculties, facilities, money...
Where No Researcher Wants to Be
U.S. senator singles out U. of Cincinnati psychiatrist as symbol of what's wrong with corporate entanglements in biomedical science.
Torture and Tenure
Civil liberties group organizes campaign to have controversial legal scholar fired. Some academics who find his views repulsive line up to defend him.
Scars in the Classroom
A new book focuses on students who cut themselves -- and write about it for English class.
Das Ende for German at USC
Scholars are outraged by Southern Cal's decision to eliminate department. Do European languages need to be cut to make more room for Arabic and Chinese?