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Financial Aid in Flux
With big changes looming, a flurry of news developments -- action and promises from Congress, reports on Perkins Loans and guarantee agencies -- add to the uncertainty.
Hiring Coup or Tainted Hire?
Texas Tech educators and others debate university's selection of Alberto Gonzales, Bush's attorney general, to teach political science and help recruit Latino students.
My Intellectual Territory
An NEH grant awarded to professors to start teaching courses around life's "enduring questions" has some philosophers wondering if they've been forgotten.
GI Bill Math
At one Air Force base, soon-to-be veterans evaluate options of a program whose benefits are not uniform.
Obama Sets Stage for Community College Plan
President Obama is getting ready to unveil his plan to help community colleges improve the job skills of Americans. Writing...
Court Revives Suit Against Wisconsin Law School Rules
A federal appeals court last week revived a lawsuit challenging the policy under which graduates of law schools in Wisconsin...
Iranian-American Academic Arrested in Tehran
Iranian authorities have arrested Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American social scientist, although the nature of the charges is unclear, the Associated...
LSU Cuts Are Deep; Press Survives
The Louisiana State University is eliminating 400 positions, 100 of them at the flagship campus in Baton Rouge, but the...