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Sabbaticals on Leave
As budgets tighten, some universities are less inclined to give faculty a break from teaching to conduct research or pursue professional development opportunities.
Newly Tenured ... at Clarkson, Ithaca, Miami of Ohio
The following individuals have recently been awarded tenure by their colleges: Clarkson University --Andrea Ferro, civil and environmental engineering--Kathleen Fowler...
E-Mail Furor Follows Historic Appointment at Dartmouth
This week at Dartmouth College started with the announcement that Jim Yong Kim would become the next president. The choice...
White Professors of Black Studies
More white scholars are teaching black studies, and they are finding students (themselves more likely than in the past to...
New Tactic to Try to Kill 10% Admissions System
Officials of the University of Texas at Austin may have a new way to convince legislators to do away with...
Still More Declines in Endowment Values
Studies of endowments don't bring good news these days. College endowments in the United States lost an average of 24.1...
No Worker Left Behind
Largest industrial trade association endorses a set of stackable work skills credentials, hoping to prod companies to require them and community colleges to teach them.
Newspaper Strike
Editorial staff of the Oregon Daily Emerald goes on strike, citing objections to a new publisher position that they say threatens the paper's independence.