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Fulbrights: Putting Money Where the Problems Are
The State Department wants its premier fellowship program to help develop creative responses to global problems.
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U.S. Administrators Get Close Look at Japan's Education System
Three other countries are also on the agenda of the Fulbright International Education Administrators Program.
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British Universities to See Budgets Deeply Slashed
Higher education will suffer a 40-percent reduction in government support under a national austerity measure.
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Small University Uses Fulbright Program to Bolster Foreign-Language Teaching
Lincoln University, a historically black institution, has a proud history of global involvement, but international interest among its students has waned.
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A Teaching Assistant Finds Her Career Path in the Amazon
A Fulbright program helps send American students around the world to teach English to foreign students, who often offer valuable lessons in return.
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To Pump Up Degree Counts, Colleges Try to Invite Dropouts Back
But the reality of identifying, tracking down, and persuading former students to return is complicated, not to mention time-consuming.
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Students at 2 Ivy League Colleges Shamed Seniors Who Failed to Donate
Dartmouth and Cornell circulated the names of students who didn't want to contribute.
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The End of the Textbook as We Know It
Here's the new plan: Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them.
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A Black-Belt Academic Gets a Kick Out of Karate
Ronald Hill, an official at Villanova Business School, brings a martial-arts mind-set to his professional tasks.
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Environmental Work Leads a Wanderer to Specialize in Southeast Asian Hill Tribes
Ian Baird will be a specialist on the region's upland people for the University of Wisconsin.
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A Political Scientist's Trivial Pursuit
Thirty-five years in the making, Garrison Nelson's series on Congressional committee appointments lists every one ever made—about 140,000 of them.
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Rebel Without Applause
Though not wildly popular, Ole Miss's new Rebel Black Bear mascot posts a disapproval rating that is well below Wall Street's.
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Fitting In: U. of Scranton Revamps One-Third of Its Faculty
Hiring so many tenure-track professors so quickly could have produced a culture clash, but the university made sure it didn't.
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Disciplines Follow Their Own Paths to Quality
As large-scale tests gain ground, some professors insist that one size does not fit all academic fields.
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29 Percent of Colleges, Largest Share Since 1996, Saw Drop in Applications
Many institutions planned conservatively to meet their enrollment goals.
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More Colleges Add Admissions Reps in Distant ZIP Codes
Dozens of institutions have added regional staff members recently, in the hope of increasing the applicant pool.
The Chronicle Review
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Beyond East vs. West
China's frictions with the modern, liberal world don't conform neatly to old binaries.
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Warrior Nation
Politics and policy have come to reinforce an American inclination toward military involvement abroad.
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Inherently Violent: Why Conservatives Love War
From Edmund Burke through Francis Fukuyama, conservative thinkers have been drawn to the idea, if not the actuality, of combat.
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William Blake's America, 2010
Want to read a disturbingly vivid psychological portrait of the United States today? Then look to an English poem written more than 200 years ago.
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My Arab Problem
A Muslim professor's book was chosen for a common reading list at Brooklyn College. That's all the blogosphere needed to hear.
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The Discipline of English
The New Mexico dominatrix has made public what everyone in English departments already knew: They are inherently sadomasochistic.
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Making Sense of the 'Me' Decade
The 70s were confounding at the time and, judging from recent books, are even more so in retrospect.
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A Wanderer's Tales; Unloving Mothers
Bittersweet fairy tales and ambivalent moms.
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The Influence of Allen Ginsberg: Poet, Educator, Gay Man
"The works, not the private lives, generate the cultural discourse."
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When Sting Came to Class
A guest, invited to discuss his memoir, puts the lie to rock-star clichés.
Commentary & Letters to the Editor
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The Dirty Business of the Undercover President
Weeding a flower bed and cleaning a shower stall aren't in the job description of a campus chief executive, but maybe they should be.
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Sports Are Good for Colleges
Professors and administrators like to pretend athletics don't exist, but they do. And they help.
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Counterpoint: Doctoral-Program Rankings—the NRC Responds
The National Research Council offers its perspective on comments and criticisms about its data.
Advice
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Why Do They Hate Us? Part 2
The "public be damned" attitude of some academic provocateurs ignores the impact their grandstanding has on the rest of us.
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