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January 2007

Lost Opportunity in Russia

  • January 31, 2007

A Pleasant Budget Surprise

  • January 31, 2007

Testing an Anti-Hazing Law

  • January 31, 2007

Accountability and Comparability

  • January 31, 2007

CUNY Adopts Student Complaint Policy

  • January 31, 2007

Quick Takes: New Call for Visa Reforms, Another Party Mocks Black People, Cuts at Wheeling Jesuit, Latinos and Loans, Michigan Suit Becomes Moot, European Push for Research Access, U.S. Rule Making Formally Announced, Australia Debate on Foreign Students

  • January 31, 2007

Values and Questions

  • January 30, 2007

Shooting the Messenger

  • January 30, 2007

Institutionalizing Interdisciplinary Study

  • January 30, 2007

Another Move From Public to Private

  • January 30, 2007

Studies Point to Value of AP

  • January 30, 2007

Quick Takes: Bad Weekend for MCAT, $100M for Brown's Med School, No New Applications for Strengthening Institutions Grants, Tree-Sitters Win Round at Berkeley, Prof Accused of Prostitution Kills Self, Utah State Library Bans Howling, Dorm of the Future

  • January 30, 2007

U.S. Accreditation Official Out of a Job

  • January 29, 2007

California Regulatin'

  • January 29, 2007

New Questions on Student Evaluations

  • January 29, 2007

Phi Beta Kappa Enters Policy World

  • January 29, 2007

Quick Takes: Truce in Rutgers Union Dispute, Sentencing in Seton Hall Arson, More Charges at Bishop State CC, Grade-Selling Suspected, Duquesne Bars Politicians as Graduation Speakers, Last Holdout Accepts ACT, Butler Eliminates 2 Teams, Moose Head Suit

  • January 29, 2007

New Presidents or Provosts: Argosy U. Atlanta, Houston CC, St.-Mary-of-the-Woods College, Southern College of Optometry, Syracuse U., U. of California at Merced

  • January 29, 2007

A Stand Against Wikipedia

  • January 26, 2007

The Gold Standard of Green Standards

  • January 26, 2007

$600K for Fired Professor

  • January 26, 2007

Scrutiny for the Student Press?

  • January 26, 2007

Impediments to U.S. Push on Languages

  • January 26, 2007

Quick Takes: Offensive Party at Tarleton State, Blackboard Patents to Be Reviewed, SMU Profs Seek Vote on Bush Institute, Senate Saves Tax Break for College Workers, Ohio U. Cuts Teams, Gender Gaps in Canada, Praise for Athletes' Travel Safety

  • January 26, 2007

A Speech and its Aftermath

  • January 25, 2007

You Can't Eat Prestige

  • January 25, 2007

Easing Athletes' Academic Path

  • January 25, 2007

Going Borderless and Bilingual

  • January 25, 2007

Quick Takes: Call for Better Teaching at Harvard, Loan Rules, UNC E-Mail Incorrectly 'Admits' Applicants, Guilford Asks 5 to Leave Dorms, Hibbing Suspends Football, Panel Named for Accountability System, Strike in Greece

  • January 25, 2007

New Programs: Public Health, Biotechnology, Public Relations, Music Education, Homeland Security

  • January 25, 2007

A Sustainability Report Card

  • January 24, 2007

Keeping (Tuition) Up With the Jones

  • January 24, 2007

When Football Numbers Don't Add Up

  • January 24, 2007

Hate Crime at a Quaker Campus?

  • January 24, 2007

Poking Holes in the State Immunity Shield

  • January 24, 2007

Quick Takes: Carter at Brandeis, College-less State of the Union, Judge Throws Out Suits Against Randolph-Macon Woman's College, GAO on International Students, Unusual Choice for St.-Mary-of-the-Woods

  • January 24, 2007

Higher Ed and the High Schools

  • January 23, 2007

The First New Orleans Verdict

  • January 23, 2007

Ethical Dilemma

  • January 23, 2007

A Knight (Commission) Roundtable

  • January 23, 2007

Change Ahead for AAUP

  • January 23, 2007

Quick Takes: Religion and Politics, Aid for Students at Calif. For-Profits, Clearance for Career Education, Sallie Mae Slams Kennedy, Stem Cell Cooperation, Princeton Paper's Joke Issue Angers, Tuition Hikes in UK, Phoenix Seeks High Court's Help

  • January 23, 2007

Bias Seen in Bias Studies

  • January 22, 2007

Princeton Freezes Tuition

  • January 22, 2007

Disputed Accord in Student Loan Case

  • January 22, 2007

The Rich on the Rise in Endowments

  • January 22, 2007

A Curricular Debate: Classic or Retro?

  • January 22, 2007

Quick Takes: Women Need Not Apply, Supreme Court Rejects Delay in Michigan, Davis Pays $725,000 to Ex-Coach, Fake Diploma Blocked, Admission on Stem Cells, Access to Anthropology, Unesco Demands Safety for Iraqi Academics, Maricopa Probe

  • January 22, 2007

Profiling the American Freshman

  • January 19, 2007

Holding Trustees Accountable

  • January 19, 2007

Toward Integrative Learning

  • January 19, 2007

Reviewing the Reviewers

  • January 19, 2007

Vote Postponed on Tobacco Research Ban

  • January 19, 2007

Quick Takes: Hinojosa to Head House Higher Ed Panel, 4-Year Degrees for Florida's 2-Year Colleges, Scrutiny for Preferred Lender Lists, Agenda for Accreditation Rule Making, Methodists Oppose Bush Library at SMU, Harvard and Interdisciplinary Science

  • January 19, 2007

Students' Complaints, Professors' Rights

  • January 18, 2007

Rancorous House Backs Student Loan Bill

  • January 18, 2007

Cracking Down on the Unaccredited

  • January 18, 2007

War of Words Over Sports

  • January 18, 2007

Twist on Harvard's Gender Battles

  • January 18, 2007

Quick Takes: Affair Prompts University President to Quit, Turnover Possible at AAUP, 3 Marshall Students Killed, Tasered Student Sues UCLA, SMU President Defends Bush Library Plan, New Take on International Competition, MTV Buys RateMyProfessors

  • January 18, 2007

Another Front on Accreditation

  • January 17, 2007

The New Assessment Market

  • January 17, 2007

Political Maneuvering on Student Loans

  • January 17, 2007

A Bill from FEMA

  • January 17, 2007

Wanna Go to College? Click Here

  • January 17, 2007

Quick Takes: Bombing at University in Baghdad, Senate Backs Earmark Disclosure, Tenure Win for Prof in New Mexico Highlands Dispute, Nevada Chancellor Rescinds Resignation, Report on Gallaudet Confrontations

  • January 17, 2007

Change in Direction for Career Colleges

  • January 16, 2007

The New Size of Critical Mass

  • January 16, 2007

Better Way to Boost College Going?

  • January 16, 2007

Quick Takes: Fire Kills Marshall Student, Storm Shuts Missouri Colleges, Ethics Course for U. of California Employees, Restoring Honor to Honorary Degrees

  • January 16, 2007

New Presidents or Provosts: Coastal Carolina U., Jefferson Community College (N.Y.), Roberts Wesleyan College, Shippensburg U., SUNY-Farmingdale

  • January 16, 2007

Clues About the Gender Gap

  • January 15, 2007

Strategies on Academic Freedom

  • January 15, 2007

Want a Job? Sorry, It's Too Risky

  • January 15, 2007

Assault on a Choir

  • January 15, 2007

Quick Takes: Nevada Chancellor Quits in Huff, $1B in Bonds, UConn Shuts Animal Research Project, Call for Reform in India, Why Students Love 'Mad Money,' Law Dean Resigns Amid Ethics Review, Berkeley vs. Tree-Sitters, JMU Board Affirms Plan to Kill Teams

  • January 15, 2007

Defeat for For-Profit Model

  • January 12, 2007

More Than a Rabble Rouser?

  • January 12, 2007

NAFTA, NCAA Style

  • January 12, 2007

A Vote for Embryonic Stem Cell Research

  • January 12, 2007

Democrats Rally for Debt Relief

  • January 12, 2007

Quick Takes: Emory Slashes Loan Burdens, More Controversy at Duke, Harvard's New Campus, Student Anger in California, Diversity (or Lack of) in Top Athletics Jobs, Governance Shift in Ohio, Physics Degrees Increase

  • By Scott Jaschik
  • January 12, 2007

New Definition for Liberal Education

  • January 11, 2007

College Sports' $4 Million Man

  • January 11, 2007

Teaching America About Race

  • January 11, 2007

A Peek Inside ROTC

  • January 11, 2007

Quick Takes: Michigan Resumes Admissions, Student Stabs Instructor at Malcolm X College, Another Sign of Good Endowment Year, Phoenix Buys Online High School, Brandeis and Carter, Professor of Champagne

  • January 11, 2007

New Programs: Imaging Science, Fine Arts, Marine Science

  • January 11, 2007

History vs. Hagiography

  • January 10, 2007

Automatic Access or Raised Retention?

  • January 10, 2007

Digging Deeper Into Lender Profits

  • January 10, 2007

Ugly Turn in Mascot Dispute

  • January 10, 2007

Quick Takes: Harvard's Shortlist, Anti-Gay Slurs on Dead Pledge, Layoffs at Southern Oregon, Undercover Applicants to Britain, Court Grants Immunity to Miami U. Officers, Jaywalking Arrest Investigated

  • January 10, 2007

New Presidents or Provosts: Eastern Arizona College, Elgin Community College, New England College of Finance, University College Cork, U. of Texas at Austin

  • January 10, 2007

Can You Rank Crotchetiness?

  • January 9, 2007

Defining What Makes an Economist

  • January 9, 2007

Not So Complete Divestment

  • January 9, 2007

A Different Kind of NCAA Action

  • January 9, 2007

Progress Over the Long Term

  • January 9, 2007

Quick Takes: Measure of Faculty Productivity, Hopkins Cuts Punishment in Party Case, Industry Funding and Studies' Conclusions, Penn Professor Charged With Murder, Bowl Protest on Immigrant Tuition, Supreme Court Lets Stand 2 Professional School Cases

  • January 9, 2007

Historians, War, Responsibility

  • January 8, 2007

More Jobs, Fewer New Ph.D.'s

  • January 8, 2007

Will U Play 4 Me?

  • January 8, 2007

NCAA in Orlando: Mickey, Minnie and Myles

  • January 8, 2007

Economists Change Stance on Job Notices

  • January 8, 2007

Quick Takes: New Paltz Student Leaders Win Injunction, Prof Suspected in Killing Won't Teach, Call for Foreign Language Funding, Law Students' Engagement, Gay Rights vs. Religious Rights in UK, Caltech Ends 59-Game Losing Streak

  • January 8, 2007

More Moral and Practical Law Schools

  • January 5, 2007

A Freewheeling Academic Freedom Debate

  • January 5, 2007

Democrats Plan Evolves (and Narrows)

  • January 5, 2007

History Ph.D.'s: In and Out

  • January 5, 2007

Examining an Island Medical School

  • January 5, 2007

Quick Takes: Yale Will Keep Early Admissions, U. of Louisville Aid for Low-Income Students, New Name for House Science Panel, Alabama Ups Ante for Coaches' Pay, 'Spaceship Earth' Crashes, Different Kind of Mascot Problem

  • January 5, 2007

Tethering Students to Their States

  • January 4, 2007

Little Talk of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

  • January 4, 2007

Torts, Trials and ... Treatments

  • January 4, 2007

Testing for Technology Literacy

  • January 4, 2007

A Growing Foundation for Gay Students

  • January 4, 2007

Quick Takes: Duke Lifts Lacrosse Players Suspensions, Michigan Delays Admissions Decisions, No Jail Time in Morris Brown Case, 'Quality Counts' 2007 Released, Patent Suit Over Cell Phone Technology, Israeli Students Strike

  • January 4, 2007

The New Top Fed for Higher Ed

  • January 3, 2007

New Strategy for Small Ph.D. Programs

  • January 3, 2007

A Campaign for Antiwar Academics

  • January 3, 2007

'Why Aren't More Women in Science?'

  • January 3, 2007

Quick Takes: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Dies, Censorship Charge at Art Institute of California, Virginia Plans New Med School, Antitrust Issues and Workers' Rights, Incentives for Retention, Building American U. of Iraq

  • January 3, 2007

Dramatic Plan for Language Programs

  • January 2, 2007

Radical Shift for MLA -- on Meeting Date

  • January 2, 2007

Delay of Affirmative Action Ban Rejected

  • January 2, 2007

Combining Medical and Dental Education

  • January 2, 2007

Quick Takes: Colorado Law Would Bar Nobel Prize Money, 'Donations' Help Basketball Recruiting, Palomar Faculty Opppose Texbook Rental, Lake Superior's List of Words to Banish

  • January 2, 2007

New Presidents or Provosts: Argosy U.-Seattle, Baruch College, California State U. at Sacramento, Eastern Kentucky U., St. Ambrose U., Southern Methodist U., Stevens Institute of Technology, Wilfrid Laurier U.

  • January 2, 2007
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