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'Resilience'
Kenneth Oldfield and Richard Greggory Johnson met at a meeting of the American Society for Public Administration, and became friends...
Dead Programs Walking
Amid economic downturn, colleges are taking a tough look at program viability and institutional priorities. There's still little consensus, however, about how best to decide which programs are essential.
The Best and Worst of College Rejection Letters
An article in The Wall Street Journal reports on the best and worst approaches (from would-be students' perspective) to college...
Sports Spending Continues to Soar, NCAA Study Finds
Sports programs in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's upper echelon saw their operating budgets grow by 11 percent a year...
Britain Reconsiders Whether Applicants Must Report Criminal Convictions
Britain's student admissions service is reconsidering requirements that students must report certain criminal convictions when applying to universities. The Guardian...
Va. Governor Challenges Report on Colleges as Terror Breeding Grounds
Gov. Timothy Kaine of Virginia said officials there will investigate how a unit of the state police came to conclude...
Audit Critiques U.S. Oversight of Lenders
The U.S. Education Department's inspector general on Wednesday released the latest in a series of highly critical audits of the...