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Can Free Speech Be Furloughed?
The day after a peaceful protest over budget conditions at a California community college, four professors -- including a union president -- are placed on leave and banned from campus.
Turning Surveys Into Reforms
10 years after launch of National Survey of Student Engagement, many worry that colleges have been speedier to embrace giving the questionnaire than using its results. And some experts want changes in what the survey measures.
Panel Says Not to Fire Idaho State Faculty Member
Idaho State University lacks sufficient evidence to justify the termination of a tenured professor charged with a pattern of abusive...
Professor to Quit After Losing Fight With U. of Alaska
A marine conservationist who has battled with -- and, it appears, lost to -- the University of Alaska and National...
Professor Dies From H1N1 Complications
M. Wayne Knight, a professor of art at Humboldt State University, died on Wednesday from complications brought on by H1N1...
Student Bludgeoned to Death in Dorm Room
A new transfer student at Sacramento State University was bludgeoned to death in his dormitory room, The San Jose Mercury...
'Saving Alma Mater'
The system for financing public higher education is broken -- and not just because of the recession, according to James...
House Panel Backs New Consumer Agency, Defeats Amendment on For-Profit Colleges
A House of Representatives committee on Thursday approved legislation that would create a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency designed to...