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A Plan to Send Engineering Students Abroad
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will become one of the few science-centric institutions to expect study-abroad experience from all its students.
What Is a Composition and Rhetoric Doctorate?
Data show stability in number of programs and enrollments, but continued shifts in what programs are called, reflecting tensions within the field over its role and whether it is a single field.
The Foundations of General Education
A college's new curriculum is designed for the much-changed student population it now serves -- largely low-income, minority "urban learners" (for lack, but not of trying, of a better term).
Student Financial Counseling (Outside the Aid Office)
A growing number of colleges are offering seminars on how to manage money, deal with debt and pay for education.
Early Earful from UC's New Chief
Less than a week after formally being offered and accepting the presidency of the University of California, Mark G. Yudof...
Higher Ed Dips Into the Pork Barrel Again
Annual Pig Book report reveals some $17.2 billion in earmarked spending this fiscal year, with plenty of it to go around for higher education.