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Is Hyde Park the New Cambridge (for Mocking Liberal Academics)?
Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, but Republicans are focusing in on his Chicago neighborhood -- and its famous university -- as the way to tag him as liberal. What would Saul Bellow say?
'Quiet Desperation' of Academic Women
Interviews with 80 female faculty members at a research university -- the largest qualitative study of its kind -- have...
Rescuing a College in Cleveland
Investor's bid to bail out a financially ailing business institution in the Ohio city offers hope but also carries risks -- arguably for all involved.
Researchers' Financial Disclosures in the Spotlight
Conflicts of interest, always an emotional topic, returned to the headlines this week as Sen. Charles Grassley, a longtime critic...
Newly Tenured ... at Carleton, Concordia of Minnesota, Saint Rose, Nebraska-Kearney
The following individuals have recently been awarded tenure by their colleges: Carleton College Jorge Brioso, Spanish David Lefkowitz, art Gregory...
Inquiry Into Alleged Anti-Asian Bias Expands
Education Department converts complaint of one rejected applicant to Princeton into a broad "compliance review" of the university's admissions system.
Not Our Best and Brightest?
To head American University of Iraq, officials picked someone who resigned previous presidency amid harassment allegations. His tenure in Iraq was short-lived.
'The Last Professors'
Two much-discussed trends in academe -- the adoption of corporate values and the decline in the percentage of faculty jobs...