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No Aid, No Problem
UniversityNow signs up more than 1,000 students for low-cost, competency-based degree programs without the lure of federal financial aid.
Union Impact and Non-Impact
Study comparing grad students with and without collective bargaining for their teaching work finds that those with unions have better pay, and that they are just as close to their professors as those on other campuses.
Shift on Grad Unions
NYU offers to permit election on collective bargaining for teaching assistants, but not for research assistants. Move marks shift for university, but union leader says it is based on "arbitrary distinctions."
Grappling With Global Learning
At gathering focused on global learning, faculty and others discuss diverse strategies for integrating it within the curriculum.
Not a Retirement Club
With many professors balking at giving up their intellectual homes, some institutions create emeritus colleges.
Avoiding Disastrous Presidencies
A new book gives tips and tricks to boards, presidents and would-be presidents to avoid leadership disasters.
Small Ain't All
U. of Southern Maine is latest institution to consider closing its physics department. Are there disciplines whose lack of popularity with the masses shouldn't doom them?
Opinion
Passing English
Long forgotten, J. Redding Ware was a philologist of slang and detective-fiction pioneer. Scott McLemee looks into Ware Studies.