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Chinese Factories, Italian Fashion
In today’s Academic Minute, Mount Holyoke College's Calvin Chen explains the Italian fashion industry’s increasing reliance on factories owned and...
Too Many Lawyers?
In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Texas at Austin's Stephen Magee discusses his efforts to calculate the optimum number...
Nobel in Economics Honors Work on Cause and Effect
Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims were named this morning as winners of the 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in...
AAUP Endorses Occupy Wall Street
The National Council and the Collective Bargaining Congress of the American Association of University Professors on Friday endorsed the Occupy...
At Boston U., a Call for Every First-Year Student
At Boston University last week, every freshman and transfer student -- all 4,300 of them -- received a call from...
West Virginia U. Seeks Distance From Professors' Studies
West Virginia University on Friday asked reporters to avoid calling studies by its faculty members "WVU research," The Charleston Gazette...
Ed Koch vs. NYU on Terror Report
Ed Koch, the former mayor of New York City, is having a public fight with New York University, where he...
Opinion
Completion Rates in Context
Holding community colleges accountable for students' degree progress is appropriate -- but only if we use the right measures, argues Craig Clagett.