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Congressional compromise would lift maximum grant by $125 more than $490 rise approved in budget act; NIH would receive $30 billion. Bush veto likely.

Scholars who don't like direction of the field form new group, vowing not to be politicized. Others say the founders are exactly those who have politicized the discipline.

Movement to eliminate student borrowing grows -- and Davidson College, which did so in the spring, reports gains as a result.

Hearing on rising tuitions, normally a scary topic for higher ed officials, treads gently and focuses on proposal to ensure better state funding of public colleges.

Research on women and minorities in the sciences and social sciences examines the entire population of professors at top 100 departments in 15 fields.

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings continues to try to counter the twin perceptions of her Education Department as lax on enforcement...

National survey of 4-year-college professors finds that they are happier with their jobs than other Americans are with theirs -- but some areas of dissatisfaction jump out.