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No Need for a Gold Watch
The manager of Harvard's mammoth endowment, his millions in compensation under attack, heads for the private sector.
The End to the 4.6 GPA?
Colleges that allow high school GPAs to be adjusted for honors or AP courses may be unintentionally discriminating against low-income applicants.
A Growing Supply of Minority Ph.D.s
New data on doctorates awarded in 2003 are encouraging for efforts to diversify faculties. The number of black and Hispanic...
Promises Kept and Broken
The budget unveiled by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Monday pleased California's universities but left community colleges a little short.
Economists and You
There's a surprising source for research on controversial topics in higher education: economists. In their journals and at their scholarly...
Bad Scholarship, Bad Politics or Bad Luck?
2 papers dispute the conventional wisdom about a recent series of scandals involving historians.
A Fight Over Fundamentalism
Alumni and faculty members at Louisiana College are locked in a battle with trustees over the institution's future.