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Faith and Freedom
Canada -- a country with a tradition of academic freedom and strong faculty unions -- is having a major debate...
Embedded Librarians
BALTIMORE — Nancy Roderer is one for bold predictions. As a library consultant in the 1980s, Roderer predicted that all...
Community College as Convener
In better times, Monroe Community College knew where its bread was buttered. Rochester, N.Y.'s three major employers – the Eastman...
Personalizing the M.D.
A hundred years after the release of the Flexner Report, which set many of the standards that still guide North...
Opinion
A Better Way to Borrow
Australia shows how the U.S. could reform its student loan system to be based on income, without burdens or uncertainty placed on colleges or borrowers, write Bruce Chapman and Yael Shavit.
Stanford Follows Berkeley on Student DNA Tests
Just weeks after the University of California, Berkeley made national headlines by asking incoming undergraduates to submit genetic samples for...
Eastern Washington Provost Quits in Advance of No Confidence Vote
John Mason, Eastern Washington University’s provost, resigned last week, days before the Faculty Senate was to hold a no confidence...
Roadblocks to College Dreams
Two articles look at how easy it is for students' path to college to be derailed by issues of paperwork...