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As Institutional Researchers Meet, Studies Galore
Annual gathering of higher education's data experts offers research on colleges' cost efficiency, students' experiences with racial bias, and a different way of calculating graduation rates.
College Board Experiments With Selling Names of the Needy
Admissions offices in pilot program can identify applicants in low-income zip codes -- a type of analysis that had been shunned for fear of use to seek wealthy students. Some competitors already sell the information.
Major Expansion of Veterans' Tuition Aid Clears Big Hurdle
Despite a veto threat from President Bush and with the presumptive Republican candidate to replace him in absentia, the U.S...
Does Academe Hinder Parenthood?
2 new studies suggest that many professors, especially women, are less likely than other professionals or men in their field to have kids.
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Complaints
Exhibit of photographs on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Stanford U. elicited gripes over its location in the student union as well as its controversial captions.
Site Ends Sales of Faculty Papers
Amid professors' complaints, allacademic.com says it had permission to sell submitted works, but ceases its practices nonetheless.