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U. of Colorado Bans Nerf Guns
The University of Colorado's ban on weapons extends to simulated weapons. As a result, The Daily Camera reported, students at...
The New GRE, Redux
Key test for graduate admissions will lose antonyms and analogies, replace some geometry with data analysis, alter scoring, and let test takers move among questions. ETS calls shifts significant; critics see cosmetic changes.
Details Emerge in Fatal Stabbing of Professor
Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani, a graduate student in anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton, has been charged with...
Protecting His Sources
Professors organize on behalf of Minnesota grad student, whose academic freedom they believe is undercut by prosecutors' demands that he reveal what he knows about underground animal rights activists.
Sunshine for International Recruiting
Amid criticism, U.S. universities have quietly paid companies commission to recruit students abroad. Now they're doing it publicly, and trying to standardize practices.
Hofstra Eliminates Football
Hofstra University announced Thursday that it is eliminating its football program. The rationale for the decision was quite similar to...
Obama Stresses Higher Ed Role in Economy
In remarks kicking off a White House forum on job creation and the economy, President Obama repeatedly stressed the role...
Democrats Challenge Accounting of Student Loan Proposal
The chairmen of Congress's education committees on Thursday disputed a report that a proposed lender alternative to President Obama's student...