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50-Yard-Line Seats and Faculty Oversight
U. Michigan professors express concern about practice of giving athletics advisory board members tickets and travel to football bowl games.
Fleshing Out Student Aid Simplification (Update)
Education Department to present plan that would simplify aid form, shrink number of aid programs, and base award size on family income and average price of 2-year college.
Sustainable Curriculums
Faculty members describe different approaches to incorporating sustainability into their classes, in some very different disciplines.
6-6 Course Loads and No Benefits
Adjuncts in Tennessee, working a decade without raise in pay ceilings, spent 2 years documenting needs. Their plan was considered and promptly rejected as the recession hit.
Gates Foundation to Spend Big on Community Colleges
A new plan -- involving hundreds of millions of dollars -- will focus on completion rates and performance-based incentives.
A 'Practical Guide' to the Academic Portfolio
It's not a new thing for professors to document their teaching, research and service. That's how people get hired and...
'Free Market' for Higher Ed
Larry Johnson is a self-described “entrepreneur from hell,” so it’s of little surprise that the University of Cincinnati dean likes...