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Friday, July 3, 2009
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Universities Must Disclose More Data on Animal Research

A court settlement requires the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make public more information about research on animals, prompting some academic researchers to worry about further attacks by animal-rights extremists.

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Photo illustration New Scholarly Books Brainstorm: Lives of the Mind

Teresa Ghilarducci
Supreme Court or Supreme Bloc?
Who are the real judicial activists?

Laurie Fendrich
Ruminations on the Fourth of July
What are all the fireworks about again?

article illustration 2-Year Colleges Streamline Student Aid and Focus on Counseling

Marc S. Herzog (right), chancellor of the Connecticut Community Colleges system, created a central bureau, run by Tom Bradham (left), that freed up individual colleges’ aid offices to concentrate on counseling and outreach. (Photograph by Stan Godlewski)

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Colloquy

Read the transcript of a live chat with Gretchen C. Dobson, who oversees Tufts University's domestic and international alumni chapters, about how alumni networks are an important element in any institution's internationalization strategy.

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Convenience Is the Future

Monitoring classes on cellphones. Taking courses at multiple colleges. The college students of 2020 are going to demand an education on their terms. Is your college ready? Read the new report, "The College of 2020: Students," from Chronicle Research Services. Click here to read the free executive summary.

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Businesses Buckle Up
Many of the largest American companies plan to decrease their charitable donations in 2009, or at least keep them level with last year's, according to the latest Chronicle survey of corporate giving.

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On Course

A professor looks for small changes he can make to move students toward making smarter choices.

On Hiring

Academic Self-Fashioning
Academics hate to admit that dress plays a role in their professional lives, but the reality is that there are fashion trends and expectations aplenty even in academe.

Righting a Wrong
A scientist wonders why her university won't give grant-supported postdoctoral fellows the raises that are owed to them.

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Sections

The Faculty

A HOME IN ACADEME

Not long after he became provost at the University of Dayton, where he was taught and nurtured when he could barely speak English, Joseph Saliba returned to his native Lebanon to meet with alumni and seek new students. more...

Research & Books

TRACKING PERFORMANCE

The scholarly publishers Elsevier and Springer have unveiled new research tools that promise to help universities pinpoint their research strengths. more...

Government & Politics

ANOTHER LOOK AT RECRUITING

The Education Department has begun to develop new and, most likely, stricter rules about how colleges compensate their recruiters, and the changes may affect for-profit institutions the most. more...

Money & Management

THE CLOSING OF THE BOOKS

June 30 marks the end of the fiscal year for many colleges, and the financial reports that result may supply the first real news about the recession's impact on higher education. more...

Information Technology

LISTSERV 2.0

Electronic mailing lists, once hailed as the savior of scholarly communication, must now either change or fade away. more...


Students

A VOICE AMID THE NUMBERS

This week Robert J. Massa, one of the most outspoken national figures in admissions, will step down from his post at Dickinson College. more...

International

A HEALING SOJOURN IN MEXICO

American medical students learn new ways to think about disease and recovery as they study alternative medicine in Oaxaca. more...

Commentary

NOT GOOD ENOUGH

Poor writing persists because students don't try hard enough and aren't pushed to try harder, writes Bob Kunzinger. more...

The Chronicle Review

ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION IN PERIL

Muslims' inner spiritual lives are on the decline, throwing off their moral equilibrium and clouding their visions of a potentially bright, peaceful tomorrow, writes Ali A. Allawi. more...