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Pushing Back on Requests for Salary Cuts
In this budget year, many faculties (unionized or not) have been asked by administrations to accept salary cuts or freezes...
More Questions on Ghostwriting in Science Journals
An article in The New York Times details the common practice of drug companies offering to ghostwrite articles in scientific...
Teaching the Quarantined
Bracing for a season of H1N1, University of Michigan encourages faculty to use distance learning models to reach sick students.
4 More Trustees Offer to Quit Illinois Board
Four more University of Illinois trustees have volunteered to quit in the wake of a scandal over trustees and politicians...
Mixed Results for ACT
Overall scores are stagnant and some racial gaps grow, but testing outfit sees progress because of rapid expansion of the test-taking pool and shifts in preparedness.
Pitt Rejects Bequest From Killer
The University of Pittsburgh will not accept a bequest of $225,000 from George Sodini, who opened fire in a health...
More Difficulties for Tariq Ramadan
Erasmus University, in the Netherlands, has fired Tariq Ramadan from a visiting professor position he held, citing his having hosted...