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In Search of Evidence, and Acceptance
In proposed research center, for-profit college leaders seek ways to answer fundamental question: Do their institutions expand access or exploit students?
Commencement Speakers Announced: Duke, High Point, Rice, RIT
The following colleges and universities have announced their commencement speakers: Duke University: Muhammad Yunus, Nobel laureate and a Bangladeshi banker/economist...
SNL Spoofs Ads of a Certain For-Profit University
Notice a lot of advertising from for-profit universities of late? Apparently so did the producers at "Saturday Night Live." This...
Reforming the Humanities Ph.D.
Analysis of key effort to change doctoral programs offers insights into how they can cut time to degree and help grads land tenure-track jobs, and challenges assumptions on gender and what happens to those who leave programs.
Whose Metrics?
As community colleges begin national accountability project, Oregon experience shows that the numbers that lawmakers may want don’t always overlap with the ones educators need.
Nobel in Economics Goes to Scholars at Indiana, Berkeley
The 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics will be shared by Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson. Ostrom, professor of...
Health Plans Faulted for Inattention to College Students
A nonpartisan group of student health experts issued a statement Saturday warning that none of the major proposals under consideration...
U. of Chicago Plans Faculty Expansion
The University of Chicago is planning a faculty expansion in coming year -- not just the unfreezing of selected positions...