Teaching
How Students Can Improve by Studying Themselves
A teaching experiment at the City University of New York demonstrates that failing students can learn to succeed in courses that break down their faulty study habits.
Special Report: The Profit Motive
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For-Profit Colleges Change Higher Education's Landscape
No longer a sideshow, the sector has expanded faster than traditional colleges over the past three decades.
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Audio: Tales From the For-Profit Sector
Robin Wilson, a Chronicle reporter, shares details and stories from her recent reporting on the for-profit world with Brad Wolverton, a Chronicle editor. (Play below.)
Thomas H. Benton: The Big Lie
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The Big Lie About the 'Life of the Mind'
Most departments will never willingly provide information on graduate-student attrition, debt, and placement.
- Letters About 'Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go'
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Women, Birth, Death, and Mathematics
Female mathematicians' careers may be more nonlinear than those of their male counterparts, says Susan D'Agostino. And that's how it should...
- Economists Eye Identity
- Well, Naturally We're Liberal
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Design for Disability Will Become the Norm
Live Chat
Innovators in Internationalization:
Join Melanie McCallon and Bonnie S. Higginson of Murray State University for a live chat on Friday, February 12, at 12 noon, U.S. Eastern time.
They will discuss how the university has managed a boom in faculty-led study-abroad programs, including mandatory training and extensive administrative support.
Chronicle Blogs
In the News
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Dartmouth Resumes Layoffs and Loans in Face of $100-Million Budget Gap
The college is the second to curtail a no-loan student-aid policy in the wake of endowment losses.
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And the Academy Award Goes to ... a Computer Scientist
Paul E. Debevec, of the University of Southern California, wins for his technical wizardry, now on display in "Avatar."
- Audio: In a Washington Minute -- Obama Moves to End a Bush-Era Grant Program
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Move Over, Schrödinger's Cat: or, Thinking Like a Dog to Understand Physics
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How a Scholarship Corporation Tried to Muzzle a Blogger
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Tufts U.'s President Will Step Down to Return to Teaching
- Coalition Seeks Better Conditions for Those Off the Tenure Track
- Recession Affected Students' Financial Attitudes and Behaviors
- Number of 'Hispanic Serving' Colleges Is Expected to Grow Significantly, Report Says
- College Makes Students More Liberal, but Not Smarter About Civics
More News
The Ticker
- Professor's Alleged Religious and Anti-Gay Remarks Draw Letter From ACLU
- Canada Cuts Off Federal Funds for Its Only Aboriginal-Run University
- Appeals Court Reinstates Title IX Wrestling Case Against UC-Davis
- Rep. John Murtha, Powerful Lawmaker Adept at Steering Earmarks to Home State, Dies
- Florida State U. Accepts NCAA Penalties in Wide-Ranging Cheating Scandal
Wired Campus
- Furloughed From San Diego State U., CIO Flies Relief Missions to Haiti
- University Puts Researchers on YouTube to Stir Commercial Interest
- Justice Department 'Reluctantly' Says Google Settlement Still Needs Work
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