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Iranian-American Academic Arrested in Tehran
Iranian authorities have arrested Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American social scientist, although the nature of the charges is unclear, the Associated...
My Intellectual Territory
An NEH grant awarded to professors to start teaching courses around life's "enduring questions" has some philosophers wondering if they've been forgotten.
LSU Cuts Are Deep; Press Survives
The Louisiana State University is eliminating 400 positions, 100 of them at the flagship campus in Baton Rouge, but the...
GI Bill Math
At one Air Force base, soon-to-be veterans evaluate options of a program whose benefits are not uniform.
Some Endowments See a Little Good News
What amounts to good news for endowment managers these days wouldn't have been good news a few years ago. But...
UNLV President Demoted
The Nevada Board of Regents on Friday ended David Ashley's presidency at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, returning...
Simon Fraser to Become First Canadian University in NCAA
If all goes according to plan, Simon Fraser University, in British Columbia, will be the first Canadian member of the...
Conflict With My Interests
As the government and universities move to limit or require more reporting of professors' corporate ties, some researchers form group to object.