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Tenure Conversion
A community college in Michigan will grant tenure or tenure-track status to all full-time faculty, bucking the adjunctification trend in higher ed.
Winning Football, Falling Grades
GPAs of male students drop when teams have more on-field success, study finds; partying the likely cause.
Advancing the Open Front
MIT's new open course initiative may shake the foundations of the higher ed credentialing system.
Academic Minute: Types of Familial Conflict
In today’s Academic Minute, Matthew Girton of Lock Haven University reveals the variety of psychological motivations that fuel persistent conflicts...
Florida A&M Board Declines to Suspend President
Rebuffing a request by Governor Rick Scott, a Republican, the board of Florida A&M University decided Monday not to suspend...
Cambridge and Hong Kong Team Up to Recruit in China
The University of Cambridge and the University of Hong Kong have teamed up to recruit top students from China, Times...
A Student Government Leader With Connections
Riley Westmoreland, student government president at Samford University, doesn't need to worry about access to the university president. The Birmingham...
MIT Expands 'Open' Courses, Adds Completion Certificates
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- which pioneered the idea of making course materials free online -- today announced a...