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Bomb Injures 2 Professors at Mexican University
A package bomb on Monday injured two professors at a campus of the Monterrey Technological Institute, the Associated Press reported...
Probe of Ex-Legislator's Scholarships in Illinois
A federal grand jury is investigating scholarships awarded by a former legislator in Illinois, The Chicago Tribune reported. Under the...
Academic Minute: Value of a Liberal Arts Degree
In today’s Academic Minute, Katharine Brooks of the University of Texas at Austin supplies an answer to "the question" faced...
Glass Ceiling at B-Schools
An article in Bloomberg Businessweek reviews the slow progress of women on the faculties of business schools. Women make up...
A Debate Over Concealed Carry on Campuses
WASHINGTON -- A survivor of the Virginia Tech shootings and the author of a book advocating more gun ownership debated...
Opinion
Why We Inflate Grades
If colleges want to make it more difficult to earn an A, they need to consider why faculty members feel pressure to award them, writes Peter Eubanks.
Closing the Achievement Gap in California
The number of Latinos earning college degrees in California has risen sharply in recent years, but they still lag behind...
The Children They Never Had
45.4% of female science faculty and 24.5% of male science faculty have fewer kids than they desired, because of their careers, study finds.