Filter & Sort
Matches and Mismatches in Producing Ph.D.'s
SAN DIEGO -- In theory, these days, everyone agrees that attrition in Ph.D. programs is a real problem. Graduate students...
Floods Shut Valley City State U.
Valley City State University, in North Dakota, has called off classes for the rest of the week because of flooding...
Safe Haven
Seeing grim job prospects for its graduating Ph.D. students, a college at Vanderbilt offers stipends and ongoing teaching positions to help students buy some time.
'For the Common Good'
The concepts of academic freedom are much debated, and it's clear that not everyone who uses the term means the...
Newly Tenured ... at College of Saint Rose, Hamilton, Hartnell
The following individuals have recently been awarded tenure by their colleges: College of Saint Rose --Ronald Dugan, educational psychology--Megan Fulwiler...
Shopping for 'Cut Scores'
Many community college systems around the country are just now discovering the lengths to which some of their students will...
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1950-2009
One of the most influential cultural theorists of her generation, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, died on Sunday following "a long and...
That Time of Year? Another Student Newspaper Theft
Fresh on the heels of reports that a campus admissions official trashed issues of a campus newspaper with an unflattering...