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Holding Presidents Accountable for Learning
Regents of Georgia university system individually asked 35 campus leaders how they planned to improve retention and graduation rates. The meetings were occasionally uncomfortable; the answers sometimes unsatisfactory.
The Scrutiny Spreads
A House panel questions the Pentagon's oversight of distance education -- particularly that offered by for-profit colleges -- for active duty service members.
U.S. Study of Research Universities Gets Under Way
Wednesday marked the official launch of a new federal panel designed to recommend how to ensure that American research universities...
A Plea for Perkins
At hearing Wednesday, lawmakers praise a student loan program that is facing a phaseout.
Bishops Condemn Book by Creighton Theologians
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement denouncing as "harmful to one's moral and spiritual life" a...
Retaining the Best Talent
HR leaders in academe consider how to keep their best employees -- faculty and administrators alike -- in era of tight budgets.
College Employees Contributed Overwhelmingly to Democrats
Much has been made in recent months about the increasingly intensive political activity in which for-profit colleges and their employees...