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Shying Away From Graduate School
Number of students taking GRE will drop this year, stunning ETS and universities, who foresaw opposition impact from recession. Fall is seen in U.S. and elsewhere, with steep decline in India.
Almost Ready for the Doctoral Program Rankings
National Research Council -- gearing up for February's long awaited and delayed evaluations -- offers hints on parts of its approach, and hears reservations about methodology.
English, Redefined, at Harvard
New proposed curriculum for majors would replace historical survey courses with a series of smaller seminars, prompting questions on what's lost as well as gained.
The Jobless Discount
Some community colleges are waiving tuition for the unemployed, as their numbers grow nationwide.
A Faculty Caste System?
Graduate deans discuss the rationale for and difficulties of designating some professors as "graduate faculty."