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How to Compete
The new economic market in higher education may lead one liberal arts college to sell its adult education programs to another.
Liberal Arts and Not So Liberal Economics
Oberlin embarks on a plan to improve its finances and academics -- in part by getting a little smaller. Critics fear key values are at risk.
3 Historians Win Bancrofts
Columbia prizes honor works on antebellum Virginia, race and the Supreme Court, and Southern intellectualism.
What's a Board to Do?
If Lawrence H. Summers needs a support group, he could easily find other presidents who watched their faculties vote "no...
Going to the Mat
Brown's coach discourages wrestlers from joining a fraternity, drawing cries of discrimination.
Work Over Debt
A study in Iowa suggests that low-income students take less financial aid than they need. Wealthier students, though, take more.
A President With a Lot of Friends
Iowa's David Skorton uses "The Facebook" to stay in touch with students.
Trade School Chain Shuts Down
A for-profit group in Oregon and Washington State -- facing several investigations -- shut down suddenly at the end of last week.