Past Coverage

• Congress Puts More Money Into Aid for Child-Care Centers on Campuses - February 2, 2001
• 2-Year-Transfer Help in Texas; Worcester Poly Picks a Provost; Pomona Lands a Modernist Scholar - April 18, 2008
• Tales of Academic Parenthood, Continued - April 29, 2005
• Gifts and Bequests - April 14, 2000
• Appointments & Resignations - December 31, 1969

Recent News

• Number of 'Hispanic Serving' Colleges Is Expected to Grow Significantly, Report Says

  Almost 200 colleges may soon meet the federal designation of "Hispanic serving," and they should work to increase their retention and graduation rates, says a new report.

• College Makes Students More Liberal, but Not Smarter About Civics, Study Finds

  The Intercollegiate Studies Institute found that people with bachelor's degrees were more likely than recipients of only high-school diplomas to take liberal stances.

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  Pulling Haiti's Culture From the Rubble

  The chief conservator of one of the stricken nation's major libraries is working with Brown University and others to save a part of his people's cultural patrimony.

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The University of Hong Kong (HKU) was founded in 1911. It is both Hong Kong's first university and an internationally respected centre of intellectual learning and pioneering research discoveries.

HKU has close to a century of...