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A Press Revolt Against E-Packet Practices

Suit against Georgia State University may be start of tangling over how business models for textbook publishing online will evolve.

New Programs: Digital Journalism, Sports Management, Equine Studies, Christian Associate Degrees, Forest Management, Business and Public Policy, Biomedical Technology

Heroin Death Rattles a Campus

Reed College, known for its counterculture intellectualism, ponders what response is appropriate following a drug-related tragedy.

Quick Takes: Obama and Clinton on Affirmative Action, Va. Tech Remembers, Faculty Duties Debated at Texas Tech, Indiana Governor Wants Free Community College, Guidance on Lobbying, Pros and Cons of Loan Bill, CUNY Union Faulted, Queen's U. Chief Quits

How to Head Off a Potential Student Loan Crisis

Panelists before the Senate Banking Committee stop short of calling it a crisis, but they settle on a few policy options to avert one just in case.

A Pentagon Olive Branch to Academe

Defense secretary discusses plans for new university consortia and grants -- largely in social sciences -- for non-classified research, and pledges no political restrictions.

One Year Later

Today marks a Day of Remembrance at Virginia Tech, where 32 students and faculty members died April 16, 2007.

New Presidents or Provosts: Antioch U. Los Angeles, Indiana U-Purdue U. Fort Wayne, Le Moyne College, Northeastern State U., St. Francis College (N.Y.), Santa Barbara City College District, U. of Wisconsin-River Falls, Washington U. in St. Louis

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