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DREAM Act Introduced
House and Senate leaders last week introduced the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, which provides a...
Postdoc Cleared on Poisoning Charges
Prosecutors have dropped all charges against Ben Chun Liu, a postdoc at the University of California at San Francisco, who...
Fairfield U. Drops SAT Requirement
Fairfield University, in Connecticut, announced Monday that is will no longer require that all undergraduate applicants submit SAT scores. Applicants...
Court Upholds Dismissal of Delaware State Professor
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld Delaware State University's firing of a professor, Wendell Gorum, after he was found...
MIT Police Charged With Dumping Student Newspaper
Two police officers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been suspended and are having their employment reviewed following allegations...
Opinion
We Need a New Kind of Institutional Aid
Congress needs to create a program that rewards colleges and universities that educate disadvantaged students, write Charles B. Reed and F. King Alexander.
Harvard Encourages Learning ... for the Sake of Learning
Harvard University is taking steps to encourage more students to major in subjects that are central to knowledge, even if...
Newly Tenured ... at Luther, Marquette, Misericordia
The following individuals have recently been awarded tenure by their colleges: Luther College --Bradley Miller, computer science--Lea Pickard, anthropology--Matthew Simpson...