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Study Explores Gap in Latino College Attainment
While 89 percent of Latino young adults (ages 16 to 25) say that a college education is important for success...
Senator Wants to End NSF Funds for Political Science
Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, is proposing that Congress bar the National Science Foundation from supporting research in political...
Campuses Continue to See New H1N1 Cases
Ninety-two percent of the 273 colleges and universities in a sample being tracked by the American College Health Association reported...
German Author Wins Nobel in Literature
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded this morning to Herta Müller, a German writer of novels, short stories...
An Experiment Takes Off
U. of Southern California's online master's in teaching, designed to "scale up" the production of instructors, enrolls 450 students in first 6 months -- more than four times the number in its on-campus program.
Community College Accountability
Years after assessment initiatives won favor at many four-year institutions, Gates and Lumina foundations fund effort to create universal system for two-year institutions to monitor and improve student success.
A Trustee Calls the Plays
Florida State board chairman says it's time for the university's longtime football coach to go, arguably ignoring state and national guidelines about interference in sports programs.
Darwin, From the Creationists
Anti-evolution group plans to distribute 100,000 copies of Origin of Species next month -- with an introduction designed to undercut the book and promote a literal view of the Bible.