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Not So Godless After All
Believers outnumber atheists and agnostics, survey finds, and many professors regularly attend religious services.
Standoff Grows at Gallaudet
Hundreds of students take over main academic building as protests over selection of new president continue.
Holding Off the Application Push
New rules seek to prevent colleges from admitting students while they are juniors or setting admissions deadlines too early.
Quick Takes: Ig Nobel Prizes, Pelosi Pledges Pell Increase, Promoting Engagement, More Travails for Corinthian, U. of Cal. and Nurses in Deal, Nova Southeastern Custodians Unionize, Conviction in Grade-Buying Case, Imperial to Leave U. of London
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Methods for Teaching Math
A new report offers practical recommendations on ways to improve math instruction at 2-year colleges.
Raising the Ethics Bar at Brown
New policy bars undergraduates as primary investigators on research proposals, requiring them to get faculty sponsors.
Part Timers Say No to Union
Instructors at Vermont's 2-year college -- adjuncts all -- break with trend in rejecting collective bargaining by 2 to 1 margin.
Not Missing the SAT
Mount Holyoke stopped requiring the test, and finds very little difference between those who submit scores and those who don't.