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Communication Breakdown Led to Crisis of Confidence in Penn State’s Leadership
The Penn State board’s response to the child-sex-abuse scandal could provide lessons for other governing boards across higher education.
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Penn State Trustees Considered Canceling Rest of Football Season
The idea didn’t gain much traction among board members.
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Unions Begin to Confront Fault Lines Between Adjunct and Full-Time Faculty
Contingent faculty have made strides in collective bargaining, but the management of their unions is one realm beyond their reach.
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The ‘Fearmonger’
Brett A. Sokolow’s booming business of providing legal guidance on issues such as threat assessment and hazards to health and safety has both fans and skeptics.
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Percolator: Penn State, Motivated Blindness, and the Dark Side of Loyalty
The author of a new book on ethical blind spots sheds light on the Penn State child-abuse scandal.
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4 Are Honored as U.S. Professors of the Year
The honor is given by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
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Aging Brains Create ‘Scaffolds’ to Shore Up Eroding Abilities
The brain bolsters fading regions by recruiting new ones, according to a theory from the neuroscientist Denise C. Park.
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Journal Editors’ Reactions to Word of Plagiarism? Largely Silence.
A computer-science professor was surprised to learn that one of his papers had been lifted. He was more surprised to find that it had happened 21 times.
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Bleary-Eyed Students Can’t Stop Texting, Even to Sleep, a Researcher Finds
Dependence on their cellphones can lead to depression and anxiety as a result of sleep deprivation, reports a professor at the University of Rhode Island.
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Wired Campus: At Open-Access Meeting, Advocates Emphasize the Impact of Sharing Knowledge
It’s time to redesign how we share knowledge, attendees heard at a meeting devoted to open access.
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In Canada, New Strategies to Help a Fast-Growing Aboriginal Student Sector
The University of Saskatchewan and others have offered extra support, but educators concede that improving graduation rates for this important group will take time.
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Amid Scrutiny and Skepticism, Liberal-Arts Colleges Restate Their Case With Data
Alumni of Annapolis Group colleges, a survey commissioned by the group found, reported the highest level of satisfaction with their undergraduate experience. And therein...
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Job Outlook for College Graduates Is Slowly Improving
Hiring is expected to increase by 4 percent this academic year, following recent declines of up to 40 percent, a new report says.
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Many Community-College Students Feel Squeezed Out of Courses They Need
About 20 percent of those in a national survey said they couldn’t enroll in a required course. Many also said their high school had not prepared them for college work.
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Who Hits the Books More? Study Habits Vary by Major, Survey Finds
The latest National Survey of Student Engagement, out today, seeks to serve as “an agenda for action to improve undergraduate education.”
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Five Minutes With Jacqueline DiSalvo, an English Professor and an Occupy Wall Street Organizer
The Baruch College professor has helped organize the movement and talks about its future.
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Remembering Morris Philipson, Director Emeritus of the U. of Chicago Press
The press Mr. Philipson ran reflected his taste and judgment, high standards, and attention to detail. He dealt with his writers as equals.
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