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Affirmative Action at Israeli Universities
About 2,000 students at Israeli universities were admitted under affirmative action programs designed to diversify the student bodies, according to...
All Eyes on Pittsburgh
Mayor pushes 1 percent tax on tuition, stirring up anger at the city's colleges and worries elsewhere that other localities might try similar approaches.
Professors of the Year
In podcast interviews, winners of annual national contest describe their pedagogical approaches.
Community Colleges Take on the Zombie Threat
Elgin Community College and Harper College are trying to save America's young people from becoming zombies. That's the message of...
Medical Schools Asked About Ghostwriting
Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican who is a leading critic of conflicts of interest in biomedical research, is focusing...
Geographical Society Journals Go to Wiley-Blackwell
Continuing a trend in which nonprofit disciplinary societies are turning to commercial publishers, the American Geographical Society and Wiley-Blackwell on...
Another University Joins Kindle Boycott
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is joining Syracuse University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison in announcing that...