Past Coverage

• Spain Joins World Bank Push for Distance Education in Third World - March 3, 2000
• Is Distance Education a Dead End Job? - October 24, 2001
• Egyptian Students Injured in Protest; UNESCO Institute to Move to U. of Montreal; Myanmar Continues College Crackdown; South African Distance-Learning Plan Rapped - October 27, 2000
• Distance Education Attracts Older Women Who Have Families and Jobs, Study Finds - November 8, 2002
• South African Universities Grapple With the Growth of Distance Learning - June 23, 2000

Featured Commentary

• The Berkeley Protest: Fresh Anger in the Footsteps

  The students protesting the big tuition increase at the University of California impress Murray Sperber, who was in their shoes 45 years ago.

• Teaching Matters: Creating Lives in the Classroom

  Online avatars bring German history to life for students at Stanford. Edith Sheffer explains.

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  A Fine Legal Mess: When Student Groups Collide With Anti-Bias Policy

  Can a college compel a student group to abide by antidiscrimination rules that violate its religious views? The U.S. Supreme Court isn't saying, writes Robert M. O'Neil.

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...