Past Coverage

• Duke Agrees to Student Demands on Code of Conduct for Clothing Manufacturers - February 12, 1999
• Anti-Sweatshop Groups Find It Difficult to Turn Campus Idealism Into Real Change - January 5, 2001
• Protesters Are Unswayed by New Effort on Labor Standards for College Apparel - March 26, 1999
• U. of Iowa Enforces Strict Code of Conduct for Clothing Manufacturers It Licenses - May 18, 2001
• Anti-Sweatshop Group of Colleges Votes to Require Disclosure of Factory Locations - June 30, 2000

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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If any one year can be said to be a transformative time in the life of a university, then the past 12 months have been such a year for Hofstra. Hofstra learned it would host the third and final 2008 presidential debate, announced plans for a...