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Dutch Students Protest Cuts to Universities
Thousands of Dutch students protested Friday against planned government cuts to universities, Dutch News reported. Students have particularly objected to...
Obama Honors Science Mentors
President Obama on Friday named 11 individuals and 4 organizations as recipients of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science...
Threats Follow Glenn Beck Attacks on CUNY Scholar
Frances Fox Piven, a noted sociology professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, has become the target...
N.C. Community Colleges May Bar Students Who Raise Safety Issues
North Carolina's State Board for Community Colleges voted Friday to permit community colleges in the state to bar the enrollment...
Retention Ups and Downs
First- to second-year retention rates are edging up at community colleges, and down at four-year colleges, according to an analysis...
What the Republican Budget Hawks Would Eliminate
The Republican Study Committee -- a G.O.P. caucus focused on cutting federal spending -- on Thursday unveiled its plans to...
Bonuses and Raises Amid U. of California Cuts
Past and future budget cuts have been the focus of this week's meetings of the University of California Board of...
Academic Minute: Mathematics and Tiling
In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Arkansas' Edmund Harriss examines the importance of tiling to current and historical mathematics...