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Checking Up on Your Past
More colleges are conducting full background reviews of potential employees -- and debating whether faculty positions should be covered.
Rules of (Community College) Engagement
Given the high number of part-time enrollees, both instructors and institutions should do more to promote interaction when students are on campus, annual report says.
Accountability System Launched
State universities unveil template and announce first participants in effort to inform and assure public and policy makers; University of California opts out.
More Foreign Students -- Everywhere
Annual report finds first significant growth in U.S. enrollments of international students since 9/11, and upturn in study abroad fueled by short-term programs and study in nontraditional locales.
Faculty Productivity, Learning to Teach, Student Satisfaction
Researchers on higher education gather for annual meeting and release a slew of studies on colleges, students and professors.
Sending in the Class Monitor
Brandeis professor fights university decision that he violated anti-bias policy after using a word some students found offensive. He says word was used for historical illustration.
Football Diaries
“Redshirts,” written by a Middlebury lecturer and playwright, tackles the rocky relationship between academics and athletics at a fictional Division I university.
University Training in the Skilled Trades
With a wave of retirements expected, institutions find that they must provide a new kind of education to keep up with their own demand for electricians and HVAC mechanics.