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After months on the fence, Wake Forest University joins 2U's Semester Online consortium just as its fall pilot gets under way, but initial student interest at some institutions has been tepid.
Who Can Speak at Providence?
Facing faculty and student outrage, college says it will permit an academic speaker in favor of same-sex marriage, under certain conditions.
Too Quick to Suspend?
Recent sanctions by colleges against faculty members have some calling for renewed discussion of when a professor should and shouldn't be removed from duty.
Opinion
The Unforgotten
A newly translated book ponders and celebrates archival research. Scott McLemee thinks it's a classic.
Engineering Bigotry?
Some faculty members are outraged that science education magazine published letter of anti-gay rhetoric.
Duncan Chides 1 Dupont
Calling lobbyists' reaction to Obama's rating system proposal "premature and more than a little silly," Duncan says Education Department will develop metrics by which colleges will be judged.
Opinion
What the Study Didn't Show
A new, much discussed comparison of student learning from non-tenure-track and tenure-track instructors downplayed its limitations and has been widely misunderstood, writes Edward Kazarian.
Protected Tweet?
A tenured Kansas professor's Twitter remark was distasteful by all accounts, but faculty advocates and free speech experts say it didn't warrant immediate suspension.