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Bill Expanding National Service Nears Passage
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation that would more than triple the number of participants in the AmeriCorps...
AFT President Denounces Academic Boycott of Israel
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, on Wednesday issued a statement condemning efforts by a group of...
Pay Soars for British University Chiefs
Add another item to the list of ways in which American higher education is the model for the rest of...
Nevada Gov. Seeks to Avoid Stimulus Demand to Spend on Higher Ed
The governor of Nevada has asked the U.S. Education Department to exempt the state from a requirement that it restore...
Grade Inflation in British Admissions?
British universities are divided over whether to embrace the use of a new top grade -- A* -- on students'...
Groups to Ask U.S. to Stop Denying Visas to Scholars
A coalition of scholarly and civil liberties groups plan to urge President Obama today to abandon the Bush administration's approach...
Computer Science Enrollments Rebound
The number of undergraduate students majoring in computer science this year significantly increased for the first time since the dot-com...
At Brown, an Unusual Memorial
At Brown University, the 10-member Commission on Memorials has recommended that the university commission a memorial recognizing a painful past...