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Academic Minute: Too Many Lawyers?
In today's Academic Minute, Stephen Magee of the University of Texas at Austin discusses his effortsto calculate the optimum number...
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be announced this morning. This item will be updated as soon as the...
Youngstown Profs Approve Contract With Concessions
In a close vote, faculty members at Youngstown State University have approved a new contract that contains a number of...
U. of California Reaches Tentative Pact With Lecturers, Librarians
The University of California on Tuesday announced tentative deals with two of its academic unions -- for lecturers and librarians...
Not So Foreign Languages
Citing demographic and pedagogic trends, growing number of colleges rename departments "world" or "modern" languages.
Opinion
A Little History of Philosophy
Will a new series from Yale University Press aimed at young readers (and the occasional grown-up) catch fire? Scott McLemee takes a look.
Israeli Scientist Wins Nobel in Chemistry
Daniel Shechtman was this morning named winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work discovering quasicrystals --...
Boulder Students Pay Business to Gain In-State Status
Increasing numbers of out-of-state students at the University of Colorado at Boulder are filing petitions to get in-state status, and...