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Calif. Panel Calls for New Higher Ed 'Master Plan,' Key Role for Technology
California needs a new higher education master plan to replace the "obsolete" guiding principles state leaders embraced more than 50...
Study: Many Endowments Change Spending Policies
A new report from the National Bureau of Economic Research (abstract available here) finds that college and university endowments change...
Making It Easier to Identify Sex Offenders on Campus
Florida, like many states, has a searchable registry of sex offenders. But for the first time, the registry offers a...
A Bonus Year for Rutgers President
Robert Barchi's first year as president of Rutgers University has had plenty of controversy: athletics scandals, questions about athletics spending...
Innovation Group Urges Congress to Support Research
The Task Force on American Innovation, a coalition of industry and scholarly groups, on Friday wrote to Congressional leaders to...
Academic Minute: Infectious Disease and Species Extinctions
In today’s Academic Minute, Matthew Heard of Winthrop University discusses the threat diseases pose to endangered species. Learn more about...
Yeshiva U. No Longer Employs Teacher Convicted of Lewdness
Yeshiva University no longer employs Akiva Roth, who as recently hired as a Hebrew instructor, after reports that he had...
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Three professors were honored this morning with the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for "their empirical analysis of asset...