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Competing With Publics on Price
Two private colleges create or expand programs that lower tuition for students who are admitted to local state universities.
The Tenure-Track (Busy) Sociologist
A discipline finds that -- unlike much of higher education -- it is not increasing its reliance on adjuncts, but is seeing the permanent faculty's teaching load go up.
Irvine Prof, Ending Standoff, Receives Anti-Harassment Training
Alexander McPherson has finally taken training on how to avoid and prevent sexual harassment. McPherson, a biologist at the University...
MIT Will Provide Open Access to Articles
Faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have voted to make all of their scholarly articles available to the...
So Many Students, So Little Time
Higher Ed Holdings' recent efforts to partner with one university were thwarted amid faculty outcry. At other universities, however, the company's model is going forward -- raising concerns about whether mass education online is coming at the expense of individual interaction, and evaluations based on essays as opposed to multiple choice.
After She Helped Student Journalists, She Was Denied Tenure
Christine Kopinski, the only journalism professor at Clark College, is credited with advising student journalists there on how to improve...
Questions About $50M Grant for Texas A
Texas lawmakers are questioning the authority under which Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, moved funds from one state fund to...