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Students Fail -- and Professor Loses Job
Steven Aird gave out a lot of D's and F's at Norfolk State University. Tomorrow, he will be unemployed.
'On Course': New Guide to First Semester of Teaching
A frequent refrain of new faculty members, fresh from graduate school, is that earning a Ph.D. didn't train them to...
Emerging Higher Ed Act Compromise
With lawmakers still aiming for May finish, draft bill circulates with abundant reporting requirements and key issues -- on textbooks, state mandates and minority graduate aid -- left unresolved.
Academic Freedom Violations Found at Hunter
Report says that unusual arrangement in which corporate interests sponsored a course put professor in untenable position and compromised curricular standards.
Admissions Control (Update)
Debate over enrolling undocumented students in North Carolina raises issues of who at federal, state and institutional levels sets admissions policies.
'Time Out' to Reconsider Core Changes
Many a curricular overhaul is controversial. At the University System of Georgia, where two preliminary plans were met with intense...