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What If Higher Ed Funds Don't Help Economy?
Greater prosperity requires more jobs, and more jobs require more economic growth. And the best way to do that, this...
Admitted -- to College and Grad School
To attack STEM shortage, CUNY chancellor proposes accepting promising freshmen into Ph.D. programs in science and math.
New Tactic on Stem Cell Studies
Approving spending bill for NIH and education programs, Senate panel aims to expand the research through a date change.
An Alternative to Google
Coalition involving Amazon.com seeks university libraries looking for a different way to digitize collections.
'Black Women in the Ivory Tower'
In his landmark demographic studies of black America, W.E.B. Du Bois found that by 1880, 54 black women had earned...
Questioning College-Wide Assessments
Study calls Spellings Commission recommendation "misleading" because of wide differences in outcomes by academic discipline.
Faculty Gender and Student Performance
Whether a professor is male or female has little to no effect on how a student performs in the class, study finds.