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Ranking the rankings
It is rankings time again, as everyone interested in colleges and universities know. This annual celebration gives everyone something. It...
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Counterpoint: What About the Students?
An op-ed this week on transfer of credit worried more about the burdens on registrars than the needs of students or taxpayers, Elise Scanlon and Roger Williams argue.
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Here They Come, Walking Down the Street
Students are returning to Hinterland’s campus in droves, and it’s not even dorm move-in yet, let alone the start of...
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Ask the Administrator: Following Up on an Application
A new correspondent writes: I'm in need of some advice regarding a CC job that I applied for. I'm currently...
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Surviving the First Year
As she gets ready to start as an assistant professor, Shari Dinkins shares the advice she's received and the lessons she learned.
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Dynes Dines
When universities, and university systems, become very rich and very byzantine, it's both hard to run them and easy to...
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Drinking and Deaning
According to this article, Anthony Campbell, the Dean of Students at Rider College (N.J.), has been indicted on charges of...
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Time to Step Back
Higher education accreditation is badly flawed. But expanding the federal role, as Margaret Spellings proposes, is the wrong way to fix it, Jane S. Shaw writes.