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Academic Minute: Intelligence and Politics
In today’s Academic Minute, Alma College's William Gorton reveals that while Americans have displayed increasing intelligence over the past century...
Opinion
Who Is Really Adrift?
Educators shouldn't be so quick to embrace a critique of colleges that is based on a narrow testing tool, writes Robert J. Sternberg.
Tenure Changes Coming to Brown U.
Once named the most tenure-heavy institution among elite privates, Brown moves to new rules to tighten the process, following faculty sign-off.
Cost of Compliance With Aid Rules Hurts Students, Survey Asserts
College financial aid offices are so pinched by the costs of complying with federal regulations that they are shortchanging students...
A Marriage Endures
Rebuffing a disaffiliation endorsed by their leaders, delegates to New York's faculty union vote instead to keep their connection to the American Association of University Professors.
California Community Colleges Put On and Taken Off Probation
The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges -- which accredits two-year institutions in California, Hawaii and several Pacific island...
Canadian Universities Debate Rights of Anti-Abortion Groups
Canadian universities are once again debating whether it is appropriate to support anti-abortion groups. Carleton University, in Ottawa, revoked the...