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Smells Like School Spirit
The latest scents on some campuses come from a fragrance company that says its perfume and cologne lines reflect certain colleges.
Innovation Crowded Out
For the second time in four years, Education Department cancels open grant competition for higher ed reform, as Congressional and White House priorities eat up the budget.
Location, Location, Location
Why do some public colleges always seem to fare better on state appropriations than others? Research helps, but so does a campus in a Democratic state.
Not-So-Secret Agents
When it comes to international students, the still-controversial practice of paying commissions to recruiters gains greater acceptance, and visibility.
Liberal Arts, Behind Bars
Wesleyan University plans to start offering for-credit courses for prisoners.
Canadian Professors Lose Fight Against Google E-Mail
An arbitrator has rejected the grievance of the faculty union at Lakehead University, in Ontario, that the institution violated professors'...
Survival Tactics
As N.C. State chancellor resigns amid controversy, several other besieged college leaders hold on. So how do presidents persevere in scandal or avoid it altogether?
The Summer Swarm
Community colleges and for-profit universities are seeing expected enrollment increases due to the down economy, but students are flocking to many four-year colleges this summer, too -- and finding friendlier aid policies at some institutions.