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The Tenure-Track (Busy) Sociologist
A discipline finds that -- unlike much of higher education -- it is not increasing its reliance on adjuncts, but is seeing the permanent faculty's teaching load go up.
MIT Will Provide Open Access to Articles
Faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have voted to make all of their scholarly articles available to the...
After She Helped Student Journalists, She Was Denied Tenure
Christine Kopinski, the only journalism professor at Clark College, is credited with advising student journalists there on how to improve...
Questions About $50M Grant for Texas A
Texas lawmakers are questioning the authority under which Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, moved funds from one state fund to...
So Many Students, So Little Time
Higher Ed Holdings' recent efforts to partner with one university were thwarted amid faculty outcry. At other universities, however, the company's model is going forward -- raising concerns about whether mass education online is coming at the expense of individual interaction, and evaluations based on essays as opposed to multiple choice.
Leon Kass Named to Deliver Jefferson Lecture
Leon R. Kass, a bioethicist, was named Monday by the National Endowment for the Humanities to give the 2009 Jefferson...
IIE Releases Report on Study Abroad and STEM
The Institute of International Education on Monday released a paper on promoting study abroad in science and technology fields, the...