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Community college mental health counselors report that their duties include academic and career advising, limiting time available to help on psychological issues.
Gingrich Sought Presidency -- of West Georgia College in 1971
Just a year after being hired to teach history at West Georgia College, an ambitious Newt Gingrich applied to be...
Defining 'High Quality'
A federal rule making panel is tasked with recommending new regulations to govern teacher preparation programs.
Faculty Groups Try to Educate Biden on Salaries
Faculty anger is growing over comments made last week by Vice President Biden suggesting that faculty salaries are in part...
East Asian Advantage
Students whose families came to the U.S. from China, Japan or Korea are more likely than others to take SAT courses -- and to benefit from them with higher scores, study finds.
Libraries: A Paper Wikipedia
With the open-source encyclopedia blacked out to protest U.S. Internet bill, college librarians offer their services (and verifiable sources).
Academic Minute: Mortgage Education
In today’s Academic Minute, Jeff Sovern of St. John’s University (New York) explains efforts to make sure home buyers understand...
Pulling for Better E-Textbook Prices
Universities have started banding together to negotiate favorable contracts with software vendors. With new effort, a group of them aims to exercise similar leverage with publishers on behalf of students.