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Upcoming Events in Higher Ed: Community College Humanities, Hispanic Colleges, Adult Education, History
The following meetings, conferences, seminars and other events will be held in the coming weeks in and around higher education...
Competitiveness Reconsidered
Perception that it's harder to get into college is true only at small minority of institutions, study finds -- over past decades, about half of colleges became much easier to get into.
Discouraging Jeerers
Controversial visitors to U. Chicago and Temple provoke angry crowds, inside the lecture hall.
The Nuclear Option
Facing a fiscal crisis and little prospect of tax-supported revenue in the near future, Colorado State hypothetically entertains privatization.
Assessment vs. Action
Vast majority of colleges have systems in place to measure what undergraduates learn, survey finds. But using that information? That’s another story.
Panel Says Not to Fire Idaho State Faculty Member
Idaho State University lacks sufficient evidence to justify the termination of a tenured professor charged with a pattern of abusive...
In the Crosshairs?
Panel appointed by Education Department to consider new rules on financial aid "integrity" tilts toward critics of for-profit higher education.
Professor to Quit After Losing Fight With U. of Alaska
A marine conservationist who has battled with -- and, it appears, lost to -- the University of Alaska and National...