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The Maryland Blend
A state university system's bid to help undergraduates finish in four years is expected to lead to a boom in "hybrid" distance education.
Turning Pages: Kathleen Rooney
We asked university presses to tell us about authors under 40 publishing significant works. Our debut is a 24 year old who studied Oprah.
More Trouble in Minnesota
Southern Methodist University holds a special, and ignominious, place in National Collegiate Athletic Association history, as the group's most-punished sports...
A Rebuke for Brandeis Administrators
Faculty panel rejects phasing out the teaching of ancient Greek -- and sees "incalculable" damage from the way cuts were proposed.
Speedier Visas
A Government Accountability Office report released Friday finds that the average time foreign scholars and students must wait for a...
Partially Open Records
A New York court requires Cornell to make public some documents related to one of its state funded colleges.
The Drive for Revenues and Rankings
Colleges have become "dramatically more market-oriented," and risk sacrificing important values to the quest for money, warns a report issued...
What Larry Summers Said
Bowing to faculty demands, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers on Thursday released a transcript of his controversial remarks on women...