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Legal Win for Indiana Faculty Who Aren't Renewed
If a university declined to renew a non-tenure-track professor's fixed-term teaching contract, is the professor then voluntarily unemployed? According to...
Above the Law?
U. of California asserts that it would not comply with legislation protecting student newspaper advisers from firings over content disputes. Is it allowed to pick and choose which state laws to follow?
The Evolving SAT Debates
College Board shifts policy to help repeat (generally wealthier) test takers; new study backs board claims on writing test, but questions whether verbal exam adds anything.
Sociology Jobs Plentiful, But Do They Match?
Overall supply of positions suggests new Ph.D.'s have options, but criminology appears more popular with hiring committees than with grad students.
Stripping His Way to a Ph.D.
Journalism professor's new book is a distinctly personal account of researching D.C.'s gay clubs.
Merit Aid Still King
Despite increased pressure to move more money away from merit-based aid programs and into need-based grants, there is little sign...
Is This NIH's Year?
There's never enough money, it seems. Virtually every spring and summer, as Congress begins to allocate federal funds for the...