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California Passes Law Protecting Animal Researchers
Signed by Schwarzenegger, the law is already in effect, adding new misdemeanors designed to protect academic freedom of intimidated scientists.
Trickle-Down Economic Duress
Months of national fiscal strain have had little direct impact on most colleges so far. As liquidity crisis intensifies, a few signs of actual distress begin to emerge in higher education.
New Challenge to TOEFL
Pearson creates test of English for foreign students in which institutions will receive not only score reports, but recordings of test takers.
Redefining Division III
Talk of splitting the NCAA competitive level in two is dead. But philosophical differences among the division's members remain, prompting a reevaluation of some of their bedrock principles.
Understanding Students Who Were 'Born Digital'
Kids these days! If the technologies students use -- and sometimes abuse -- add up to an overwhelming jumble for...
Border-Crossing Universities
Europe is seeing new models for foreign institutions. In Britain, a Malaysian university opens to serve immigrant students.
'Stuck in the Shallow End'
Jane Margolis is a scholar of equity issues raised by technology whose previous book was Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women and...