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Public Higher Education Is 'Eroding From All Sides,' Warn Political Scientists
The institutions are facing declining finances and popular support, said scholars at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.
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Texas A&M System Will Rate Professors Based on Their Bottom-Line Value
Faculty members will be evaluated based on their salaries, how much research money they bring in, and how much money they generate from teaching.
- U. of Southern Mississippi Plans to Cut Programs and 29 Faculty Jobs
- 'Virginia Quarterly Review' Closes Its Offices, Pending UVa Investigation
- Judge Sides With UVa Over State Attorney General's Climate-Research Inquiry
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Reason for Hope Survives in Academic Publishing Despite a Month of Bad News
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U. of Louisiana to Consider Weakening Tenure
- Stem-Cell Research Backed by a Company Advances to First Human Therapy Test
- Some Stem-Cell Studies Can Continue, NIH Director Says
- Federal Judge Overturns Obama Policy on Stem Cells
- Medical Colleges Shrink Tenure as Their Teaching Hospitals Grow
- Medieval-Studies Group Divided Over Whether to Hold Meeting in Arizona
- Harvard Finds Psychology Researcher 'Solely Responsible' for Scientific Misconduct
- UVa Will Review Allegations of Workplace Bullying at Literary Journal
- Wider Debate Swirls Over Ruling That Curtailed Berkeley's DNA Program
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For the Chancellor of a New Online Campus, Every Workday Is About Branding
Allison Barber, who once worked for the Defense Department, now spends her days trying to find adults in underserved groups to enroll in WGU Indiana.
- A Federal Judge's Tough Decision: Leaving the Bench to Lead a Campus
- A Professor Studies How African-American Religions Affect Media and Culture
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Reason for Hope Survives in Academic Publishing Despite a Month of Bad News
Publishers continue to innovate in the face of scattered reports of trouble.
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Canadian University Hopes to Lead Fight Against High Subscription Prices
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College 2.0: Teachers Without Technology Strike Back
Many professors don't find that the latest technology helps their students learn.
- Reaching the Last Technology Holdouts at the Front of the Classroom
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The Gospel of Well-Educated Guessing
Sanjoy Mahajan, a lecturer at MIT, teaches his students how to make good estimates, using both their heads and their guts.
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The Actual Needs of the Needy: New Measure of Poverty Catches On
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