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Margaret Spellings, Where Are You?
Meeting of North Central accreditor shows how much colleges are doing to measure student learning. But will all the assessment satisfy federal calls for accountability?
A Rare Performance Review Do-Over
What happens when a professor understands her hiring to be a joint appointment but her contract reflects otherwise?
Growth in International Applicants Slows
Number of foreign applicants to U.S. graduate programs increased by only 3 percent this year, survey shows, while about a third of schools saw declines.
Faculty Salaries and Priorities
AAUP points to gaps in pay for professors and presidents, and sees decline against inflation, but method of calculating total increase is questioned.
'Collective Sidestep' on Adjuncts
Accreditors have many detailed rules that they expect colleges to meet -- requirements that relate to courses, faculties, facilities, money...
Where No Researcher Wants to Be
U.S. senator singles out U. of Cincinnati psychiatrist as symbol of what's wrong with corporate entanglements in biomedical science.
Torture and Tenure
Civil liberties group organizes campaign to have controversial legal scholar fired. Some academics who find his views repulsive line up to defend him.