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Bucking Cultural Norms, Asia Tries Liberal Arts
Even as China and its neighbors are trouncing U.S. students on international exams, Asian educators are adopting, and adapting, a quintessentially American approach to...
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A Professor From the Big City Scrutinizes His Iowa Home
Stephen Bloom, who teaches journalism at the University of Iowa, gave his students a real-life lesson in how not to improve town-gown relations.
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Obama Aims to Make Colleges Cut Costs
And that has higher-education lobbyists and leaders wondering what, exactly, that will mean.
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Handicapping the President's Higher-Education Proposals
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A College-Cost Policy Wonk Gives Data a Seat at the Table
Jane Wellman and her Delta Cost Project have provided hard numbers and hard truths about spending in higher education.
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Endowment Returns Rise to 19%, but Trouble May Lie Ahead
Continued economic concerns, in the United States and abroad, have caused worries that endowments in 2012 may not do as well as in 2011, a survey found.
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As Endowment Managers Turn to Private Equity, Questions Arise
Political and moral arguments have popped up against private equity. But universities like that it can take on more risk and deliver results.
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As Journal Boycott Grows, Elsevier Defends Its Practices
A protest by scholars, the suppliers of journal articles, could signal trouble for the publisher. The company says its pricing and the value it offers are misunderstood.
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Community-College Study Asks: What Helps Students Graduate?
The Center for Community College Student Engagement is seeking to identify practices that work, and help colleges expand them to cover all students.
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Graphic: 'Success' Programs at Community Colleges Miss Many Students
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U.S. Agency Will Offer $100-Million to Universities to Study Development Issues
The new program from the Agency for International Development seeks to get the world's poor on the research agenda of the nation's top universities.
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Head Count: Inflated SAT Scores Reveal 'Elasticity of Admissions Data'
The falsification of SAT scores at Claremont McKenna raises questions about the integrity of enrollment statistics.
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Wired Campus: Fair-Use Guide Seeks to Solve Librarians' VHS-Cassette Problem
Academic librarians have avoided digitizing the tapes because of copyright law. A new code of best practices could help them navigate such issues.
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Recreating Mars as a Watery World
A geophysicist in Colorado uses hard-won knowledge of Earth to map water, and possible habitats for ancient life, in the Martian ground.
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Percolator: A New Twist in the Sad Saga of Little Albert
The famous experiment, in which researchers taught an infant to fear, may have been more sinister than it seemed.
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Kinsey Scholar's Rx for Good Sex: Cuddling and Cookies
This Valentine's Day, some husbands may simply want hugs, says a sex expert at Indiana University.
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5 Minutes With the Leader of a Catholic-College Group That Opposes a U.S. Ruling on Contraceptives
The head of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities discusses President Obama's requirement for birth control in health plans.
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U. of Utah's New President Hopes to Widen Appeal of the Flagship Campus
David W. Pershing, who has been at the university since 1977, hopes to raise its status and improve completion by raising admissions standards.
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Founding Director of U. of California Center Dies of Rare Disease He Studied
After he was diagnosed with the muscle-wasting illness, in 2004, Richard K. Olney became a patient in a clinical trial he had designed.
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Big Picture: Glimpses of Life in Academe From Around the World
The Chronicle Review
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The Future of American Colleges May Lie, Literally, in Students' Hands
Increasingly, students see the value in not just a sophisticated understanding of the world's problems but also the practical know-how to find sustainable solutions.
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Academic Abroad: A Cautionary Tale
A traveling scholar displays his, um, sophistication.
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Teaching News Literacy in the Digital Age
If the Facebook and Twitter era has made everyone a journalist, let's make everyone a better journalist.
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Theory and the Novel
Do novelists really want to "rework" poststructuralist theory? Or do they just want to tell excellent stories?
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Just Doing It
The inestimable value of being in the moment, whether in upward dog or in the classroom.
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Little Boy Blue—and Little Girls, Too?
Parents haven't always color-coded their offspring by gender, according to a new book on the history of children's clothing.
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The Past, Present, and Future of German Studies
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Dissing the Inarticulateness of, Like, Youth
Commentary
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U.S. Education in Chinese Lock Step? Bad Move
The two countries' education systems are headed in opposite directions, aiming at exactly what the other one is trying to give up.
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Free Speech Off Campus Must Be Protected
The outcome in Tatro v. University of Minnesota could give colleges virtually limitless authority to silence speech that is critical of their programs, no matter...
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Vassar Gets It Wrong
Why didn't it just admit the early-decision students who had been mistakenly told they got in? Because it's holding out for the Ivy rejects who can plump its ranking.
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Adviser to Protesters: Grow Up. Pay Up.
"The 'Pledge of Refusal' ... what a thought."
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Technion Society Is Not a 'Fund-Raising Office'
"The New York-based American Technion Society was founded in 1940 as an independent organization dedicated to raising support for the Technion-Israel Institute of...