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Adjuncts Get Some Support From the NEA
Adjunct instructors are getting some help (rhetorically, at least) from the country’s largest education union. The National Education Association’s Representative...
University Applications Fall Sharply in Britain
A year after the British government essentially tripled tuitions, applications for university spots fell by nearly 9 percent in Britain...
Giving to Penn State Is Second-Highest Ever, but Future Donations Down
Pennsylvania State University fund-raisers took in $208 million in the 2011-12 academic year, the second-most in institutional history, despite spending...
For-Profit UniversityNow Buys Nonprofit Patten U.
The parent company of competency-based New Charter University is today announcing that it has bought Patten University, a regionally accredited...
Austrian University Shifts Admissions Test Scores to Favor Women
Vienna Medical University is taking some criticism (particularly from men) for a policy that favors female applicants. The Associated Press...
Academic Minute: Success of Early Mammals
In today’s Academic Minute, Greg Wilson of the University of Washington reveals how a slight change in tooth shape allowed...
Tough Job Market for Science Ph.D.s
President Obama and many educators are encouraging more American students to earn advanced degrees in science, but the jobs may...
Movers and Shakers: Bloomsburg U. of Pennsylvania, Columbia College Chicago, Columbus College of Art & Design, Emerson College, McDaniel College, U. of Maryland-College Park
Jane E. Clark, professor of kinesiology at the University of Maryland at College Park, has been named dean of the...