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Sustainable for a Year
Multiple colleges have completed campus-wide "year of sustainability" initiatives devoted to changing and improving green practices. But some say the campuses need to look at the bigger picture.
How Ph.D. Programs Will Be Judged
National Research Council releases long-awaited methodology for still-awaited rankings. Is the system too complicated?
How the Public Views Science
Overwhelming majorities of Americans believe that science has had a positive impact on society and that science has made life...
Disconcerting Data on Student Debt
Analysis of federal statistics shows rise in borrowing for college, especially costlier and riskier alternative loans.
A Geneticist for NIH Director
President Obama chooses the genome scientist Francis Collins as his nominee for director of the biomedical research agency.
Public Good, Private Money
World Conference on Higher Education concludes, with government officials from Brazil and India taking up issues of access and branch campuses, respectively.
Major Lender to Stop Making Federal Student Loans
U.S. Bank, the sixth largest provider of federally guaranteed student loans, has told its customers that it will stop doing...