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March 2007

MLA Grades Spellings Commission

  • March 30, 2007

New Way to Rank Ph.D. Programs

  • March 30, 2007

Going After 'Double Dippers'

  • March 30, 2007

An Unknown Resource?

  • March 30, 2007

Nurturing the Next Generation

  • March 30, 2007

Quick Takes: Challenge to Data on Men's Sports, University to Sell More Eakins Works, Howard Bars Sudan Stocks, More Lender Scrutiny, Charges in N.J. Med School Case, No Confidence at Our Lady of the Lake, Indian Court Suspends Quota Additions

  • March 30, 2007

Explaining the Accreditation Debate

  • March 29, 2007

A City, a Campus and 115,000 Cars

  • March 29, 2007

Dr. Dictator

  • March 29, 2007

Portrait of the Occupational Student

  • March 29, 2007

Bill on Science Teacher Ed Advances

  • March 29, 2007

Quick Takes: Another Link Between Colleges and Lenders Questioned, Ohio U. Revokes Degree, Private Effort to Recruit Black Students to UCLA, Ousted Sorority Sues DePauw, British Universities Told to Fight Anti-Semitism, Helicopter Parent With Ice Pick?

  • March 29, 2007

New Approach to International Education

  • March 28, 2007

Inexorable March to a Part-Time Faculty

  • March 28, 2007

Drawing A Hard Line

  • March 28, 2007

A Lab of Their Own

  • March 28, 2007

Fighting to Keep a Medical Center Public

  • March 28, 2007

Slap on the Wrist at Columbia?

  • March 28, 2007

Quick Takes: Pro-Israel Group's Academic Freedom Plan, Not So Distant Distance Education, Anxiety Disorders on the Rise, Sierra Nevada's Reorganization Plan, CollegeNet vs. XAP

  • March 28, 2007

Pushback Against Perceived Power Grab

  • March 27, 2007

The Overflowing Composition Classroom

  • March 27, 2007

Sister Mentors

  • March 27, 2007

The Impact of Merit Scholarships

  • March 27, 2007

Do We Need More Lawyers?

  • March 27, 2007

Quick Takes: Lender Pledges More Disclosure on Payments to Colleges, Texas Southern Governance Faulted, Jewish Seminary Will Ordain Gays, Inside Look at UCLA Admissions, Extra Fees for 'Energy Hogs,' Oxford Adds Aptitude Tests, the Other Final Four

  • March 27, 2007

Fooling the College Board

  • March 26, 2007

Paying by the Program

  • March 26, 2007

Off the Picket Lines

  • March 26, 2007

Solid Raises for College Staff

  • March 26, 2007

Doing E-Portfolios Right

  • March 26, 2007

Quick Takes: Scholar's Win Over Joyce Estate, Legacy Impact, Trade Talk Worries, Colleges to Split With Baptists, Intelligent Design at SMU, Jeb Bush Honor Is Blocked, Cuts at Coastal Bend, U. of Alberta Ends Mandatory Retirement, Mel Gibson Outburst

  • March 26, 2007

The Kinder, Gentler Summit

  • March 23, 2007

Aggressive Tack on Accreditation Rules

  • March 23, 2007

Taking on Lenders and Colleges

  • March 23, 2007

From Service Function to Discipline

  • March 23, 2007

Controversial Penn State Coach Resigns

  • March 23, 2007

Quick Takes: Paying for Passports, Loan Agency Limits Perks, Mansfield to Give Jefferson Lecture, Penn Adds Aid, Provost Ousted, Purdue Probe, UVa Rejects Sustainability Pledge, Chancellor Not Punished for Contract Change

  • March 23, 2007

New Worries on Foreign Students

  • March 22, 2007

Birth Control Sticker Shock

  • March 22, 2007

'First Step' on Simplifying Aid Form

  • March 22, 2007

A Case Study in Case Studies

  • March 22, 2007

Community Colleges and Graduation Rates

  • March 22, 2007

Quick Takes: Cal State Faculty Authorize Strike, Scrutiny of Lenders Intensifies, Gates Will Give $122M for DC Scholarships, Big Gift for Faculty Salaries, American Indians and Higher Ed, Probe at Moscow State

  • March 22, 2007

Assessing the Spellings Commission

  • March 21, 2007

Taking 'College Guide' National

  • March 21, 2007

How to Trim FAFSA's Fat

  • March 21, 2007

Budget Outlook for the NEH

  • March 21, 2007

Millions in Loan Overpayments?

  • March 21, 2007

Quick Takes: Part-Time Enrollment Gap in California, Education Dept. Urged to Review Paperwork Burden, Students Seek Seat at Summit, Mich. Budget Fight, No Penalties in Hamas Flag Protest, Iowa Faculty Exodus, Wiley Buys Anker, Exporting Honor Code Idea

  • March 21, 2007

Who's Who at the Spellings Summit

  • March 20, 2007

Brand Extension

  • March 20, 2007

Delicate Debate on Unionization

  • March 20, 2007

Stem Cell Policy Impedes Research, NIH Chief Says

  • March 20, 2007

Quick Takes: Crow Vows Limited Use of Rankings in Contract, Escalating Criticism of Florida A&M, Aid Group Blasts Cuomo, Fate of a Painting, Fire Prevention in Boston, Canadian Student Complains of Customs Treatment, Communist Documents

  • March 20, 2007

New Presidents or Provosts: Briarcliffe College, DeVry U.-Fort Washington, Elizabeth City State U., Housatonic CC, Kent State U., LeTourneau U., Marywood U., Newman U., Ryerson U., U. of Hawaii-Manoa, U. of Massachusetts-Lowell

  • March 20, 2007

Davidson Eliminates All Loans

  • March 19, 2007

Should U.S. News Make Presidents Rich?

  • March 19, 2007

The Price of Disability

  • March 19, 2007

A Book She Didn't Write

  • March 19, 2007

Sociology Dept. Fails Power Relationships?

  • March 19, 2007

Quick Takes: Republicans Anger Latinos at Boise State, Another Boston Fire Tragedy, Accusations Over UNESCO, Threats Against N. Idaho Instructor, University vs. Alumni, Eastern Washington Fires AD Amid Charges, New Affirmative Action in UK

  • March 19, 2007

Who Controls Textbook Choices?

  • March 16, 2007

'Deceptive Practices' in Loan Industry

  • March 16, 2007

Christian College Grows Roots Abroad

  • March 16, 2007

A Push for Need-Based Aid

  • March 16, 2007

Largess for Louisiana's Colleges

  • March 16, 2007

Quick Takes: House Reiterates Solomon Amendment, Diversity Ideas at Michigan, Merger of High-Speed Networks On Again, Purdue Makes Deal Others Rejected, Nothing Unsafe Found at Susquehanna, Orange Coast Will Sell Island, Ph.D. in Happiness

  • March 16, 2007

Race and Fairness

  • March 15, 2007

Threats to Rare Resource for Humanists

  • March 15, 2007

Introductory Course Makeovers

  • March 15, 2007

Defending Bush's Higher Ed Budget

  • March 15, 2007

Data on Helicopter Parents

  • March 15, 2007

Quick Takes: House Passes Bill on Presidential Records, New Report on Substance Abuse on Campus, California Boards Increase Tuition, Charges Dropped in Guilford Case, Charles Taylor Wins Templeton, Internet Ban at Elite Indian Institute

  • March 15, 2007

A More Porous Church-State Wall

  • March 14, 2007

Are Public Universities Losing Ground?

  • March 14, 2007

Strike Halts 2-Year College's Classes

  • March 14, 2007

Spring Arbor and Transgender Dean Settle

  • March 14, 2007

Fight on for Ol’ Ki Yi

  • March 14, 2007

Quick Takes: Father and Daughter Plagiarism Charges, Court Upholds Finding Against Brown, Law Deans Criticize Web Site, Support for Science Bill, Aid for La. Colleges, Battle Over Russian Academy, ETS Cancels 900 SAT Scores in Korea, Sustainability

  • March 14, 2007

Kafka at the Border

  • March 13, 2007

Encouraging Faculty Retirements

  • March 13, 2007

Change of Heart on Lender Oversight

  • March 13, 2007

Historians Vote to Condemn War in Iraq

  • March 13, 2007

The All-Academic NCAA Bracket

  • March 13, 2007

Quick Takes: Strike Called at CC of Philadelphia, Reforming Education Doctorate, DePauw Kicks Out Sorority, New Views on Madison Dispute, Blended vs. Online Education, ACE Names New Fellows, Princeton Repays Some Funds, Denison Drops SAT

  • March 13, 2007

MyRichUncle's Under-the-Radar Buy

  • March 12, 2007

Would U.S. News Make Up Fake Data?

  • March 12, 2007

Faculty Salaries Up 3.8%

  • March 12, 2007

The New Polytechnics

  • March 12, 2007

Bill Advances to Reverse Bush on Documents

  • March 12, 2007

Quick Takes: Howard President Criticized, UK Cuts Visa Fees, Neo-Nazis Protest Mizzou, Contract Talks Ordered at Mich. Tech, Another Tragic Accident, Seminary Sued, Rescinded Invite, Rescinded Gift, Degree Shift in Russia, Always Check Your Math

  • March 12, 2007

In Congress's Crosshairs

  • March 9, 2007

Jumpstarting the Higher Ed Act

  • March 9, 2007

Huge IPEDS on the Atkins Diet

  • March 9, 2007

Win for Catholic Group in Church/State Fight

  • March 9, 2007

When the Admissions Craze is Too Crazy

  • March 9, 2007

Quick Takes: Lobbying Loophole, Harvard Ups Pay for Medical Instructors, De Anza Suspends 8 Athletes, $125M for Science Education, 'Sports Illustrated' Angers Librarians, Princeton Review 'Partner' Angers Financial Aid Officers

  • March 9, 2007

Rebound in Higher Ed Support

  • March 8, 2007

Surprising Departure at SUNY

  • March 8, 2007

Promoting Competition in Ag Research

  • March 8, 2007

Pork Spending Drops Drastically

  • March 8, 2007

Unusual Mix of Prayer and Politics

  • March 8, 2007

Quick Takes: SMU Faculty Splits on Bush Center, More Scrutiny on Lender, Ex-Instructor Admits Fraud, Open Source Project, Study on Possible Alumni Cancer Cluster, GAO on Overhead, $100M for Psychiatric Research, Nobel Theft, Booze and Vomit at Cambridge

  • March 8, 2007

Closing the 'Degree Gap'

  • March 7, 2007

California's Low Tuition Model Questioned

  • March 7, 2007

What the Professor Said

  • March 7, 2007

Caving on the Cross

  • March 7, 2007

9 (Suggested) Commandments of Research Licensing

  • March 7, 2007

Quick Takes: More Gains for Women in Sciences, David Ward Plans to Leave ACE, Sociologists Condemn Native American Mascots, Lawmakers Challenge U.S. Ruling on Lender, Graduate School Enrollment Patterns, Stonehill Drops SAT

  • March 7, 2007

Innocent (Applicant) Until Proven Guilty

  • March 6, 2007

Cost and the College Trustee

  • March 6, 2007

Big Win for Religious Colleges

  • March 6, 2007

Off-Campus Cancer Cluster?

  • March 6, 2007

Tilting Toward Need-Based Aid

  • March 6, 2007

Quick Takes: Madison Professor Says Remarks Were Distorted, Nebraska Sues Over Visa Delay, To Help the RIAA or Not, Anthropologists Back Coke Boycott, Spellings Ideas Could Shift U.S. News Rankings, Race Debate Barred at Canadian University

  • March 6, 2007

A New Campaign on Adjuncts

  • March 5, 2007

Peaceful End at Guilford?

  • March 5, 2007

Staying Single Sex

  • March 5, 2007

Lender/University Entanglements

  • March 5, 2007

Quick Takes: Deadliest Fire Year for Students, Crash Kills 4 Bluffton Students, Colo. and Okla. Top Target List, Cancer Cluster Feared, Another N.M. Highlands Settlement, Tensions at Miss. Valley, Leading Scholar of Higher Ed Dies, Dispute at Oxford

  • March 5, 2007

New Academic Programs: Biochemistry, Information Technology, Jewish Service Learning

  • March 5, 2007

Correction

  • March 5, 2007

Open Up, Mr. President!

  • March 2, 2007

Making Holistic Admissions Work

  • March 2, 2007

A U.S. News Effect on College Funding?

  • March 2, 2007

Another Facebook-Related Fall

  • March 2, 2007

Quick Takes: Gun Lobby Wins in Utah, Living Well in Loan Industry, Whitworth Drops SAT, Settlement in Video Case, Unusual Help for Oklahoma State Athletics, Aid for Katrina Colleges, Lumina Extends Program, Dog's Diploma, When Rules Should Be Broken

  • March 2, 2007

New Presidents or Provosts: Albion College, Indiana U., Loyola U. of Chicago, New Mexico State U.-Alamogordo, Saint Lawrence U., Texas Lutheran U.

  • March 2, 2007

Campus Downloading Crackdown

  • March 1, 2007

Sexual Harassment on Study Abroad

  • March 1, 2007

Mulling Ways to Add Minority Coaches

  • March 1, 2007

Science Competitiveness, Bit by Bit

  • March 1, 2007

Black Colleges Expand Distance Learning

  • March 1, 2007

Quick Takes: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Dies at 89, William & Mary Loses $12M Over Cross, Alabama CC's Lose Chancellor, Protests at Clark Atlanta, Settlement Possible with Time-Warner, New European Science Agency, Prank Tradition Lives at MIT

  • March 1, 2007
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