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Aggressive Pragmatism
Tennessee's Republican governor, Bill Haslam, is big on accountability in higher education -- and he backs it up with state funding. He also staked his legacy to making community college tuition-free.
What Freshmen (Don't) Know
Beloit releases annual "mindset list" to remind professors that their newest students won't get the term "press pound" and never had reason to fear the Unabomber.
Opinion
Reengineering Retention
Colleges need to focus on the right strategies for their institutions, not satisfying bureaucratic targets, writes Christopher B. Nelson.
Defending Abortion Rights
California tells insurers that they can't alter the plans they provide to Catholic colleges that wanted to drop coverage.
Workshops Work
Students fare better by skipping remediation and instead taking statistics with an additional workshop, new CUNY study finds, fueling state remedial reforms.
Surge of Indian Grad Students
New report on international admissions at U.S. graduate schools shows continued growth, driven by big increases in Indian students and despite modest drop in applications from China.
Faculty Against Rape
Some faculty members want to play a bigger role in the fight against campus sexual assault. A new national advocacy group aims to help them do that.
Debating a Sexual Assault Policy
Columbia University unveils a new sexual assault policy, but student groups say the changes don't go far enough to address their concerns.