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What's a Financial Aid Director to Do?
Let's say you're a financial aid director (with his or her trusty lawyer in tow) at a college in New...
Looking Back on 60 Years in Academe
Retired philosopher and Pittsburgh provost Rudolph Weingartner's book examines liberal education, the life of the student and the nature of teaching.
Mapping the Indian Business Student Boom
Demand for business education among Indian students is still growing, but U.S. share and historical advantage appear to be slipping.
Academic Fraud in Collegiate Athletics
Flurry of cheating cases renews questions about degree of pressure placed on academic support programs since NCAA instituted new rules for sports eligibility.
Supreme Court Potpourri: Free Speech and Sex Harassment
Justices decline to hear several college cases, letting stand decisions involving a campus preacher's First Amendment rights and a soccer coach's alleged mistreatment of a female player.
From Summers to Sommers
Discussion assessing the state of research on women in the sciences covers lots of ground with collegiality and just a dash of contention.
'Scholarship Reconsidered' as Tenure Policy
In 1990, Ernest Boyer published Scholarship Reconsidered, in which he argued for abandoning the traditional “teaching vs. research” model on...