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U. of Miami Sued Over Credit Checks of Employees
A class action charges that the University of Miami discriminates against minority job candidates by conducting credit checks on prospective...
U. of Cape Town Debates Affirmative Action
The University of Cape Town, once an institution of apartheid, is having an intense debate over the use of affirmative...
Consensus or Groupthink?
INDIANAPOLIS -- The last two years have seen the emergence of the closest thing in arguably 50 years to a...
Challenge on Textbook Pricing
Textbook companies have faced a number of challenges in recent years, such as open course content, an increasingly vibrant used-book...
New Models for University Presses
A special issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing being released today features a series of calls for change in...
Social Sciences and Human Decency
NEW ORLEANS -- A researcher doing fieldwork in the southwestern U.S. happened upon something close to the anthropological Holy Grail...