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Rising Faculty Star: Alison Farmer
"Rising Faculty Star" features e-mail interviews with up-and-coming young professors about their backgrounds, their work and their career arcs, among...
Lender's Lawsuit Lives Again
A federal appeals court on Monday breathed new life into a long-running legal battle between two competing student loan companies...
Unearthing 'McCarthyism at Harvard'
It's rare for a publication to print letters to the editor about articles published more than 25 years ago. But...
Historians Define Themselves
A discipline attempts to explain its values -- while also trying to teach students not to plagiarize.
Keeping Freshmen Around
After freshmen go home for their December break, a major concern for many institutions of higher education is making sure...
Who They Are and Where They're Going
As enrollments at American colleges continue to soar, vaulting past the 17 million mark in fall 2002, students grow ever...
Redefining Liberal Education
A group of colleges started an effort Thursday to redefine liberal education -- and to ensure that all colleges that...
Career Colleges Brace for '60 Minutes'
As "60 Minutes" prepares to broadcast a potentially damaging report on for-profit colleges, the Career College Association has begun a...