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University-based research centers offer prospect of more gender equity than academic departments, a study finds.

If you are a junior professor at Princeton and become a parent, you get an extra year before tenure review -- automatically.

Students' costs have risen sharply, but mostly because publishers have sought to improve teaching and learning, GAO report finds.

Murdered U. of Vermont anthropologist was inspirational mentor and influential figure in archaeology.

Sociologists consider how to cover hot-button topics without losing control or civility.

Sociologists offer unexplored issues raised by the Harvard president's comments -- and suggestions on how colleges should change.

For decades, but especially in recent years, social scientists have been frustrated by institutional review boards, campus bodies that must...