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Promoting Career Flexibility
A novel idea from Simmons College: If you want professors to learn management skills, you need to give them some time. Plus other awards for creative ways to help faculty.
Accreditors as Federal 'Gatekeepers'
Accreditation is often defined as the "voluntary" system of peer review by which higher education regulates itself. But there’s really...
Rethinking Remedial Education
In statewide effort, community colleges in California experiment with new models for "basic skills" instruction and student services.
Professors for ... Hoover?
As scholarly groups line up behind presidential candidates in 2008, law journal shows that the academic punditocracy has been around for generations.
Challenge to the Power of Tenure
U.S. court ruling involving unusual law in Puerto Rico could endanger faculty rights, AAUP warns.
The Sociology of 'Hooking Up'
Many researchers rely on college undergraduates as subjects for studies of human behavior. For Kathleen A. Bogle, an assistant professor...
Bush on Earmarks: Tough Words, Little Meaning
In last State of the Union, president takes two steps to limit lawmakers' pet projects for colleges and other recipients -- starting next year.