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Quantity vs. Quality (of Papers) and Econ Profs
A new study examines an unusual situation within economics: Writing more papers can be linked with higher salaries for professors...
Pittsburgh Students Protest Tax Plan
About 150 students who said that they had more than 10,000 student signatures on petitions jammed a City Council meeting...
The Price of an Enrollment Shortfall
Down a few dozen, Sweet Briar suspends retirement contributions and (briefly) pay for president and top officials. Is this the cost of keeping discount rate level?
Signs That H1N1 Rates May Be Falling
The latest data from the American College Health Association suggest some good news on the spread of H1N1. Of campuses...
Counseling Prof Suspended Over Alleged Ties to Student
Florida Gulf Coast University has suspended Patrick Davis as associate professor of counseling amid allegations that he has an inappropriate...
Did Harvard Ignore Warnings on Investments?
Senior Harvard University officials -- especially then-president Lawrence Summers -- repeatedly ignored warnings that the university's investment strategies were placing...
Questions Raised on Rice-Baylor Med School Merger Talks
Five Rice University faculty members -- two of them department chairs and three of them holding endowed chairs -- have...