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Professor Wins Chance to Clear Name
Appeals court says Ohio U. officials must defend decision to strip graduate rank from an engineering faculty member and give him a public hearing; case emerged from plagiarism controversy.
The States Pull Back
2009 appropriations for higher education could be up by 0.9 percent, but probably will see a decline -- and a sharp drop from 3 straight years of increases in excess of 6 percent.
A Call for Assessment -- of the Right Kind
Reinforcing 2004 statement, liberal education group exhorts colleges to ramp up measurement of student learning -- but with emphasis on internal improvement rather than external accountability.
'Online Social Networking on Campus'
Student affairs administrators are increasingly debating how to use Facebook and other social networking tools -- and whether and how...
Unlikely Haven for Humanities Publishing
U. of Houston-Victoria, home to a host of scholarly publications and activities, is an emerging intellectual destination (albeit one whose coordinates not everyone knows yet).
Outmoded Engineers?
A department at Cornell, founded in the '60s, is latest of its kind to be merged or eliminated. Critics say more theoretical programs are valuable, but vulnerable because they generate fewer large grants.