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The Great Conference Con?
Article sparks new round of criticism of the costs associated with academic conferences.
Too Risky for Researchers?
Following 10-year jail sentence for Princeton Ph.D. student, scholars discuss the uncertainties of doing research in Iran.
For-Profit Graduate Schools Popular With Black Women
Consumer advocates are concerned by the relatively large proportion of black women graduate students who attend for-profits.
Court Dismisses Petition from Ashford U on GI Bill Approval
An Iowa District Court has dismissed a petition by Ashford University, asking that the Iowa State Approving Agency allow Ashford's...
Steven Salaita Says He's Leaving Academe
Three years after Steven Salaita lost a promised tenured position in American Indian studies at the University of Illinois at...
Radio Station Calls Off Event With Richard Dawkins
KPFA, a public ration station in Berkeley, California (the city, not the university) has called off a planned live discussion...
Academic Minute: Teen Body Image Perception
Today on the Academic Minute, Virginia Ramseyer Winter, assistant professor in the school of social work at the University of...
Debating the Right Spending Ratio
New research seeks to give trustees financial evaluation tools, finding some small colleges spend well over 50 cents on administration for every $1 spent on instruction -- but some say the numbers don't tell the whole story.