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Drew Faust Will Give 2011 Jefferson Lecture
Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian of the Civil War and the American South, was named Monday by the National Endowment...
Report Urges Greater State Incentives for California's Private and For-Profit Colleges
California's three public college systems cannot educate the state's citizens without more help from their private nonprofit and for-profit peers...
Public-Private Tensions in Georgia
Significant cuts in Georgia's popular but expensive HOPE scholarships (which primarily help those at public institutions) have some educators and...
Academic Minute: Natural Disasters and the Poor
In today's Academic Minute, John Mutter of Columbia University’s Earth Institute reveals that in the wake of a natural disaster...
Video Satire of Working at a College
There's a new online satire of life working at a college -- the fictional Juniper College. Episodes look at gossip...
Hazing Fallout at Michigan, Middlebury, Nebraska
The University of Michigan has shut down its Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter, and some of its members face university discipline...
Diversity Satire Ends Student Government Career
Matthew Cucchiaro, a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has resigned from his position as diversity director...
TA Apologizes for Facebook Comments About Students
A teaching assistant at Canada's York University has apologized for critical comments she posted on her Facebook page about her...