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CEO for Achieving the Dream
Achieving the Dream, a five-year-old effort to improve community colleges, has named a CEO: William Truehart, who formerly led Bryant...
Cats and Dogs
The Health Sciences Center has ended the use of cats from a shelter in exercises on emergency medical techniques, The...
Redefining Access and Success
24 public college systems develop new way of counting enrollments and completion rates -- which show they have long way to go to close achievement gaps for minority and needy students.
Anthropology and the Military
At its annual meeting, scholarly association criticizes a Defense Department program that uses social science as a strategic weapon.
Movement, But Miles to Go
Data on associate degrees and certificates awarded show upturn -- but not nearly enough to put U.S. on track to Obama goal.
U.S. Approves New Stem Cell Lines for Researchers
The National Institutes of Health said on Wednesday that it had approved 13 new "lines" of embryonic stem cells to...
Old Wounds in Anthropology
At their annual meeting, scholars fan the flames of a decade-old controversy over research on a South American tribe.
Advice for Trustees on Conflicts of Interest
This won't be news to anyone in Illinois, but college trustees and regents need to pay attention to conflicts of...