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Simplification Is ... Complicated
Gathering of policy makers and researchers reveals widespread agreement that financial aid system should be streamlined -- but offers little confidence that it will be.
Special Sauce for ESL
How McDonald's and a community college professor teamed up to teach English to growing immigrant population.
Uncharted Territory
A public/private partnership aimed at strengthening international enrollments and programming at Oregon State has promise, but has come at the cost of the English Language Institute's accreditation.
'Off-Track Profs'
Like the rest of higher education, elite universities have grown increasingly reliant on non-tenure-track faculty members. Leaders of those institutions...
Calif. Legislature Turns Up Heat on Universities
As legislators in California took steps to toughen their regulation of one of the state's two major university systems, they...
No Stranger to Higher Ed
Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's pick for the U.S. Supreme Court, has held faculty positions at two universities and ruled in several cases that affected academe.
U.S. Eyes For-Profit Colleges in New Round of Rule Making
Having just brought the curtain down on a series of negotiations over possible changes to federal rules governing higher education...
Group for International Student Recruiters Moves Forward
A fledgling group designed to represent the interests but also certify the work of international student recruiters took more formal...