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Another Faculty Unionizes in Wisconsin
Faculty members at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire have voted, 233 to 87, to unionize. The vote follows one last...
Specter -- Key Research Backer -- Defeated
Sen. Arlen Specter's defeat in Tuesday's Democratic primary in Pennsylvania will end a political career in which the senator was...
Is Admissions Process Too Trusting?
The Boston Globe explores the case of Adam Wheeler, the former Harvard University senior who used fraudulent materials to gain...
Historians Want Texas Standards Reconsidered
The officers and board of the American Historical Association on Tuesday issued a statement calling on the Texas State Board...
More Academic Groups Condemn Arizona
A coalition of academic associations issued a joint statement Tuesday condemning Arizona's new immigration laws. The policy "threatens to inflame...
Chavez Nationalizes Private University
Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, this week nationalized Santa Inés University, a private institution, boasting to students that tuition would now...
Adjunct Regains Job He Lost Over Comments on Judge
An adjunct who was fired from his job at Northwest Arkansas Community College is getting his position back, the Associated...