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Unlocking Student Data Could Lead to ‘App Economy’ for Colleges
Start-up companies want to pry the information loose from campus servers in order to offer personalized services that could transform the student experience.
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Portable Education Data, One Click Away
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Black Studies: ‘Swaggering Into the Future’
A new generation of Ph.D.'s is advancing the field with a multidisciplinary approach.
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A New Generation of Black-Studies Ph.D.'s
A look at five doctoral students at Northwestern, and their dissertation topics.
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Education Department’s Report on Alcohol and Drugs May Prompt Crackdown
Colleges are supposed to evaluate their programs for preventing substance abuse to ensure they’re effective. Whether that happens, the Education Department can’t say.
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Percolator: Birds Lose Their Magnetic Maps as Scientists Reverse Direction
Scientists thought that bird beaks contained magnetic sensors, but new research shows epic migration is still a mystery.
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Chiropractic Colleges Seek Legitimacy Amid Financial Woes
Struggling with shrinking enrollments and revenues, these specialized institutions may have to change to survive.
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Chiropractic College’s Ruling Couple Draws Fire Over Wife’s Outsize Role
George Goodman has presided over a period of growth for Logan College with his wife at his side, literally. She has her own desk in his office.
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An Australian ‘Smart State’ Serves Up Lessons for a Knowledge Economy
Support from the government, willingness to cooperate, and the dedication of a generous donor have made Queensland’s universities a research hub.
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From Bees’ Brains to Airplanes: an Australian Scientist Applies His Research
The goal is to create safer, more comfortable, and, for the military’s purposes, differently motorized flight.
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Head Count: A Liberal-Arts Leader Weighs Costs and Quality
At a conference on the future of liberal-arts colleges, a president describes the challenge of balancing affordability and quality.
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Criminal Charges at UCLA Focus Universities’ Attention on Lab Safety
The death of a graduate student in 2008 was just one result of the widespread culture of negligence, safety advocates say.
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Transitions: Graham B. Spanier Takes Up a National-Security Project
Mr. Spanier has told friends he’ll be working on the special project while on sabbatical from the university he once led. Read that and other job-related news.
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UConn Medical School’s New Dean Wants to Bring More Ideas to Market
Frank M. Torti will oversee a major expansion of the health center and medical school and try to position the university as a player in individualized medicine.
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Hamline U. Economist Returns to Her Roots to Lead Asian U. for Women
Fahima Aziz has promised a collaborative leadership style for Bangladesh’s young university, which has seen rapid turnover at the top.
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‘When We Wear Our Religious Lenses, We Can Employ Them to See the World’
Rahuldeep Singh Gill says that students who come to his course, whether Christians or not, leave with a deeper understanding of the religion.
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Kant Expert Is First Hire in Brown U.'s New Humanities Effort
Paul Guyer, a philosophy professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is moving to Brown to be part of a project to stimulate interdisciplinary work.
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Pillow Fights and Tuition Protests
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