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The following individuals have recently been awarded tenure by their colleges: Middlebury College Jason Arndt, psychology Louisa Burnham, history Jessica...

Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, although closely associated with the State of Israel, spends a lot of time fighting with its government.

2009 appropriations for higher education could be up by 0.9 percent, but probably will see a decline -- and a sharp drop from 3 straight years of increases in excess of 6 percent.

Appeals court says Ohio U. officials must defend decision to strip graduate rank from an engineering faculty member and give him a public hearing; case emerged from plagiarism controversy.

A department at Cornell, founded in the '60s, is latest of its kind to be merged or eliminated. Critics say more theoretical programs are valuable, but vulnerable because they generate fewer large grants.

U. of Houston-Victoria, home to a host of scholarly publications and activities, is an emerging intellectual destination (albeit one whose coordinates not everyone knows yet).

Student affairs administrators are increasingly debating how to use Facebook and other social networking tools -- and whether and how...