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Can Free Speech Be Furloughed?
The day after a peaceful protest over budget conditions at a California community college, four professors -- including a union president -- are placed on leave and banned from campus.
Panel Says Not to Fire Idaho State Faculty Member
Idaho State University lacks sufficient evidence to justify the termination of a tenured professor charged with a pattern of abusive...
Professor to Quit After Losing Fight With U. of Alaska
A marine conservationist who has battled with -- and, it appears, lost to -- the University of Alaska and National...
'Saving Alma Mater'
The system for financing public higher education is broken -- and not just because of the recession, according to James...
Professor Dies From H1N1 Complications
M. Wayne Knight, a professor of art at Humboldt State University, died on Wednesday from complications brought on by H1N1...
Student Bludgeoned to Death in Dorm Room
A new transfer student at Sacramento State University was bludgeoned to death in his dormitory room, The San Jose Mercury...
House Panel Backs New Consumer Agency, Defeats Amendment on For-Profit Colleges
A House of Representatives committee on Thursday approved legislation that would create a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency designed to...
Online and in Exile
In the first case of its kind, Maryland has barred an online degree program due to its similarity to a classroom-based program at a historically black university.