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New Draft of ABA Standards Is Tougher on Job Placement
The American Bar Association has been engaged in a long process of updating accreditation standards for law schools, and the...
Political Science Blog Challenges 'New York Times'
The decision by The New York Times to start charging for online content has prompted considerable debate here and elsewhere...
Petition Questions French University's Ban on Debate on Israel
More than 150 prominent academics from the United States, Britain and elsewhere have signed a petition calling on École Normale...
Administration Offers States 'Toolkit' and Grants to Increase Completion Rates
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Biden will today urge every state's governor to produce a plan to increase college completion, and...
Report Urges Greater State Incentives for California's Private and For-Profit Colleges
California's three public college systems cannot educate the state's citizens without more help from their private nonprofit and for-profit peers...
Drew Faust Will Give 2011 Jefferson Lecture
Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian of the Civil War and the American South, was named Monday by the National Endowment...
Academic Minute: Journalism and Social Media
In today’s Academic Minute, Claudette Artwick of Washington and Lee University examines the traditional media's evolving use of social media...
Chestnut Hill Reaches Settlement With Gay Priest
Rev. James St. George, a gay priest, on Monday announced that he had reached "an amicable resolution" with Chestnut Hill...