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New Tools to Take On Diploma Mills
Regulating diploma mills is a little like herding cats. The institutions, which offer fraudulent degrees in exchange for cash and...
Spanked Out of Grad School
An education student wrote a paper last semester advocating corporal punishment; now Le Moyne College won't let him enroll.
Rising Faculty Star: Alison Farmer
"Rising Faculty Star" features e-mail interviews with up-and-coming young professors about their backgrounds, their work and their career arcs, among...
Lender's Lawsuit Lives Again
A federal appeals court on Monday breathed new life into a long-running legal battle between two competing student loan companies...
Unearthing 'McCarthyism at Harvard'
It's rare for a publication to print letters to the editor about articles published more than 25 years ago. But...
Historians Define Themselves
A discipline attempts to explain its values -- while also trying to teach students not to plagiarize.
Keeping Freshmen Around
After freshmen go home for their December break, a major concern for many institutions of higher education is making sure...
Who They Are and Where They're Going
As enrollments at American colleges continue to soar, vaulting past the 17 million mark in fall 2002, students grow ever...