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Yellow Light on Student Loan Reform
Congress's compromise budget resolution clears way for White House plan to push restructuring of student financial aid -- but signals lawmakers' skepticism of ending role for private and state lenders.
Photographic History of Human Dissection
New book featuring group portraits with the cadaver offers uncomfortable insight into an era of medical education.
Downgrades 12, Upgrades 0
The ailing national economy led Moody's Investors Service to downgrade 12 of the colleges and nonprofit groups whose debt it...
Assessment Is Widespread
Survey finds wide use of measures of learning outcomes and curricular goals, but relatively little communication on these subjects with students.
Revising the Higher Ed Price Index
The Commonfund Institute on Monday announced that it is currently projecting a 2.8 percent increase in the Higher Education Price...
Larry Kramer Questions Gay Studies
Author/activist offers scathing critique of Yale program he helped build and of discipline, arguing that history would have been a better focus than theory and gender studies.
Providence Nixes Talk by Anti-Immigration Speaker
Providence College has denied student groups permission to have Tom Tancredo, a former member of Congress who is an outspoken...
Bypassing Controversy
Oberlin arch honoring Chinese missionaries, a fixture at graduation, has long been criticized as an homage to imperialism. Now administrators have decided, literally, to sidestep the controversy.