Past Coverage

• Controversial Poll Shows That Connecticut Professors Oppose Affirmative Action - May 19, 2000
• Affirmative Action and New Demographic Realities - February 16, 2001
• What Has Happened to Faculty Diversity in California? - November 20, 1998
• California Judge Upholds Law Allowing 2-Year Colleges to Use Hiring Preferences - December 11, 1998
• Faculty Hiring Preferences and the Law - May 19, 2006

Commentary

• Cases in Point: Intellectual-Property Agreements: Are You Managing Your Rights?

  In view of recent federal-court decisions, three lawyers urge colleges to carefully review two common methods of licensing the inventions of their faculty members.

• The City Where Diploma Dreams Go to Die

  Systemic high-school performance failure has elicited much hand-wringing. But there should be equal anguish, writes Kevin Carey, over breakdowns at the college level.

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  Why Liberal Arts Need Career Services

  Creative teaching and career planning are not mutually exclusive, writes Katharine S. Brooks.

Campus Viewpoint

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