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Farewell to Departments
Plymouth State plans to replace them with clusters. Restructuring and layoffs have professors scratching their heads.
Scorecard for Accreditors
The Education Department has created new data reports on the performance of accrediting agencies, using measures such as graduation and loan repayment rates at colleges the agencies oversee.
'What Matters Most'
New book urges colleges to exercise not-so-common sense when it comes to optimizing the undergraduate experience and otherwise striving toward institutional excellence.
A Brave Provost
Washington State U provost helps to raise money for a bee research center by growing a beard … of bees.
Racial Literacy as a Professor's Responsibility
AAUP sessions center on faculty members' role and responsibilities regarding classroom conversations about race.
Safeguarding Free Speech
City University of New York is considering a new policy that it says will protect academic freedom, but some fear it could be used to squelch dissent.
'Field Notes'
Author discusses his new book on the evolution of Middle East studies in specific and area studies more broadly.
Getting Tough With a Gatekeeper
Education Department staff proposes termination for ACICS, threatening access to federal aid for the 243 institutions -- many of them for-profit -- the national accreditor oversees. Updated with reactions.