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Fleshing Out Student Aid Simplification (Update)
Education Department to present plan that would simplify aid form, shrink number of aid programs, and base award size on family income and average price of 2-year college.
50-Yard-Line Seats and Faculty Oversight
U. Michigan professors express concern about practice of giving athletics advisory board members tickets and travel to football bowl games.
Sustainable Curriculums
Faculty members describe different approaches to incorporating sustainability into their classes, in some very different disciplines.
6-6 Course Loads and No Benefits
Adjuncts in Tennessee, working a decade without raise in pay ceilings, spent 2 years documenting needs. Their plan was considered and promptly rejected as the recession hit.
A 'Practical Guide' to the Academic Portfolio
It's not a new thing for professors to document their teaching, research and service. That's how people get hired and...
Building a Better Admissions Test
Berkeley project finds that LSAT doesn't predict success as a lawyer, but other tests -- on which female and minority students score as well as white men -- do.