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Yudof 'Right Guy at the Right Time' for UC System
It is hardly uncommon for officials at organizations that have just hired new leaders to express great enthisiasm about the...
New Impacts Seen for Faculty Unions
Colleges where professors have collective bargaining rely more on the tenure track and less on adjuncts, but spend less on academic support, study finds.
Students Prefer Intensive Courses
Study compares their views on the same courses, taught with regular semester schedule and longer sessions over shorter time period. Students prefer latter.
Sticker Shock and Study Abroad
With the dollar declining, fuel surcharges rising, and an economy slowing, the impact on the number of Americans studying abroad -- and where they go -- could be significant.
Enrollment Managers Struggle With Image
Perception that they focus only on hitting numbers and increasing test scores nettles them. But they also admit many colleges operate that way -- and find it hard to fight pressures from on high.
Faculty Are Liberal -- Who Cares?
New study -- by a bipartisan research team -- finds that professoriate indeed leans left, but there is no evidence that this tilt has any impact on students' views.
Ambiguity and Ignorance on Crime
New research finds disconnect between campus officials, less than dazzling knowledge of key campus crime law and evidence that programs to prevent sexual assaults may be misdirected.