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UConn Wins Right to Keep Donor Records Confidential
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the University of Connecticut's donor records are not covered by the state's open...
McGill's Leader to Step Down
Heather Munroe-Blum, principal (president equivalent) of McGill University, will be leaving her position -- among the most prominent in Canadian...
British Academic Questions 'University' Status of For-Profits
Quentin Hanley of Nottingham Trent University has completed a study questioning whether several leading American for-profit universities should be called...
Calls for Papers: ePortfolios, Service Learning in the Humanities, Temptation in Literature, Theology and the Arts, Women and Global Change
ePortfolios as a Catalyst for Connections: Celebrating the Curious, Creative and Capable Learner, the AAEEBL 2012 Annual ePorftolio Conference, July...
Michigan May End Age Limit for President
The University of Michigan Board of Regents may vote this week to remove a bylaw provision that requires the president...
Britain Shifts Rules for Foreign Students
Britain plans to exempt about 1,000 foreign graduates of its universities from tighter rules about to start on staying in...
Surprise and Memory Formation
In today’s Academic Minute, Brown University's Wael Asaad reveals the important roles that expectation and surprise play in the learning...
A Gift of Good News
Donations to universities grew by 8.2 percent in the 2011 fiscal year, but wealthy institutions received the overwhelming majority of gifts.