http://chronicle.com/section/News/6/ News Wed, 23 May 2012 05:16:48 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131954/ http://chronicle.com/article/EducationIncome-Levels/131954/ College graduates are more likely to vote, and they pay greater attention to public affairs than people who did not finish high school, say the authors of a new report.

]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131953/ http://chronicle.com/article/Supreme-Court-Is-Urged-to/131953/ In a brief filed on behalf of a student who is challenging the University of Texas' policy, lawyers say the justices could use the case to clarify or overrule the earlier decision.

]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131955/ http://chronicle.com/article/State-Department-Denies/131955/ With the status of potentially hundreds of Chinese language teachers set to arrive this fall in doubt, institute directors have been scrambling to find a solution.

]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 22:11:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131947/ http://chronicle.com/article/For-Profit-College-Group-Bars/131947/ Nearly a quarter of the sessions at the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities' meeting will be closed to outsiders.

]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131950/ http://chronicle.com/article/Federal-Consumer-Loan-Watchdog/131950/ The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is investigating ITT Educational Services about the for-profit-college company's student-loan practices.

]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131949/ http://chronicle.com/article/Federal-Advisory-Panel-Pans/131949/ Suggestions from the Brookings Institution are condemned as sacrificing need-based aid and not significantly improving college-completion rates.

]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131943/ http://chronicle.com/article/How-a-Campus-Might-Have-Dealt/131943/ As a former Rutgers student is sentenced in a Webcam-spying case, campus-conduct experts see issues that their offices may be better equipped to handle than the courts.

]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 21:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131936/ http://chronicle.com/article/Volume-58-Issue-37-May-25/131936/ Mon, 21 May 2012 10:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131934/ http://chronicle.com/article/State-Department-Directive/131934/ A memo warns that many teachers at the centers, which are a key piece of China's diplomatic outreach, are violating their visas and must leave next month.

]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 04:55:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131932/ http://chronicle.com/article/US-May-Require-College/131932/ A Homeland Security agency has told university-run language programs they must show evidence of separate accreditation or risk losing eligibility to enroll foreign students.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 20:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131933/ http://chronicle.com/article/Educators-Debate-Rankings/131933/ Elite research institutions in the English-speaking world dominate international lists. Universities with different strengths lose out in decisions based on those lists.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 12:02:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131921/ http://chronicle.com/article/Transitions-Retired-Army/131921/ Thomas A. Kolditz, an expert in crisis leadership, will take the post at Yale. Read that and other job-related news.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131927/ http://chronicle.com/article/Virginia-Techs-Next-Leader-of/131927/ Patricia Perillo is leaving a private college for her new job, but she is already impressed with the university's warmth and school spirit.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131920/ http://chronicle.com/article/Long-Deferred-Campus-Repairs/131920/ Many colleges have put off repairs and renovation since the recession. Now crumbling buildings, limited budgets, and mounting debt present an increasingly intractable problem.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131928/ http://chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/131928/ Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131926/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Professors-Death-Ripples/131926/ When a star professor at Emory University died, his department had to regroup as it mourned.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131929/ http://chronicle.com/article/Audio-Slide-Show-A-Career/131929/ Ron Shriver, who graduated from McDaniel College in May, left behind a promising career with the United States Marine Corps to enroll. 

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131918/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-VeteranFather-Graduates/131918/ For a former Marine with a young family, the Post-9/11 GI Bill opens the door to fulfillment of a childhood dream.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131925/ http://chronicle.com/article/Northern-Arizona-U-Overhauls/131925/ An ambitious effort to include global learning across the curriculum puts the university in the vanguard of a new movement.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131924/ http://chronicle.com/article/At-NASA-a-Caltech-Professor/131924/ Fiona A. Harrison, a professor of physics and astronomy, is in charge of launching a high-powered telescope into space.

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131906/ http://chronicle.com/article/Celebrating-a-Proposal-in/131906/ Fri, 18 May 2012 12:33:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131905/ http://chronicle.com/article/An-Unusual-Marriage-of/131905/ The University of Rhode Island's international-engineering program enrolls students for five years, sends them overseas, and gives them two degrees.

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 12:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131917/ http://chronicle.com/article/President-of-California-U-of/131917/ Angelo Armenti Jr., who had led the public institution for 20 years, was terminated a day before the release of an audit that criticized university financial dealings.

]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 22:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131910/ http://chronicle.com/article/Quest-for-College/131910/ A panel assembled by the National Research Council to study ideas for measuring institutional quality has delivered a report that indicates just how hard that is to do.

]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 16:15:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131909/ http://chronicle.com/article/For-Universities-Looking/131909/ Drawn by the country's prosperity and commitment to higher education, British and American institutions are looking south. But partnerships aren't always easy to form.

]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 11:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131907/ http://chronicle.com/article/IRS-Is-Urged-to-Reduce/131907/ Nonprofit groups are being forced to spend too much time and money reporting on their finances and other activities, critics said at a Congressional hearing.

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