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Carnegie Foundation's new president proposes a reform of teacher education programs.

For second time this year, law review articles suggest that -- if you go back far enough -- a legal case can be made that preferences for alumni children are illegal.

USA Today report finds athletes on hundreds of Division I teams are overrepresented in one major at their colleges, raising questions about whether NCAA's academic rules are driving choices.

The 2008 U.S. Professors of the Year are being honored today by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

Departments report significant increases in number of majors and degrees awarded -- and flat faculty lines. Graduate programs are becoming more selective -- and not for the reasons scholars like.

Searching for fast solutions to budget shortfalls, some colleges are turning to mandatory employee furloughs. Some question whether this approach is fair or strategic.

It's a safe bet that a lecture combining free-market economics, gender and wage gaps will generate attention on an average...