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Another Nobel Laureate Joins Obama Administration
President Obama has nominated Carl Wieman, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, as associate director of the...
Harvard Undertakes Governance Review
Harvard University's secretive seven-member governing board is reviewing its functioning, Bloomberg reported. While few details about the review are known...
2 Formerly Excluded Scholars Coming to U.S.
Adam Habib of the University of Johannesburg and Tariq Ramadan of the University of Oxford University are about to once...
U. of Ottawa Protest Leads Ann Coulter to Cancel
Organizers of a talk by Ann Coulter at the University of Ottawa said that a "threatening" crowd of 2,000 student...
NCAA Appeals Panel Upholds Alabama Penalties
A National Collegiate Athletic Association appeals committee upheld a sweeping records vacation penalty against the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa...
Test Obsession in India
With demand for higher education far outpacing capacity in India, the role of standardized tests has increased as has obsession...
AFT Releases Report on Promoting Diversity
The American Federation of Teachers released a report Tuesday on steps colleges should take to diversify their faculties. The report...
Stanford Reshapes Engineering Curriculum
Stanford University is talking up a new model of engineering education, with less emphasis on traditional courses and more focus...