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Saving Time or Betraying Trust?
A proposal at the University of Maryland to detect possible plagiarism with software pits overworked graduate students against students and professors.
Cost of College a Bipartisan Concern
House Democrats introduce Higher Education Act bill that would shame institutions that raise prices sharply; 747-page measure would increase federal role in other ways, too.
Checking Up on Your Past
More colleges are conducting full background reviews of potential employees -- and debating whether faculty positions should be covered.
Rules of (Community College) Engagement
Given the high number of part-time enrollees, both instructors and institutions should do more to promote interaction when students are on campus, annual report says.
More Foreign Students -- Everywhere
Annual report finds first significant growth in U.S. enrollments of international students since 9/11, and upturn in study abroad fueled by short-term programs and study in nontraditional locales.
Faculty Productivity, Learning to Teach, Student Satisfaction
Researchers on higher education gather for annual meeting and release a slew of studies on colleges, students and professors.
Sending in the Class Monitor
Brandeis professor fights university decision that he violated anti-bias policy after using a word some students found offensive. He says word was used for historical illustration.
Football Diaries
“Redshirts,” written by a Middlebury lecturer and playwright, tackles the rocky relationship between academics and athletics at a fictional Division I university.