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Promise Unfulfilled?
A Chronicle analysis of Title IX sexual-violence complaints filed with the Education Department shows how enforcement may not live up to students’...
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Navigating Culture Shock
Ph.D. students at Stanford learn about faculty life at San Jose State University, some miles and a world away.
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South Carolina’s Public Colleges Find Themselves Caught in Election-Year Grandstanding
Lawmakers flex budgetary muscle to dent boundaries of academic freedom.
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Scholars Wrestle With Challenges of Engaging With Policy Makers
A conference explored the issue of making the expertise of those who study the world accessible to those who shape it.
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A Professor Walks Into a Bar . . .
A student-run lecture series seeks to turn New York City into a giant campus. For a night.
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Congress Promotes Prize Competitions to Award Research Funds
More contests are apparently on the way, but their uses are likely to be limited.
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Worried by FCC Plan, Net-Neutrality Advocates at Colleges Gauge Next Steps
Some members of the higher-education community are mobilizing to oppose new Internet rules that they fear would promote inequality.
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Gerontologists in Demand, but Degree Programs Languish
As baby boomers come upon old age, far too few students are being trained in the services that the growing cohort of retirees will require.
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Its Integrity Questioned, SUNY Institute Retreats From Politically Tinged Study
The university’s Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government says an industry-financed report has multiple major flaws that undermine its central finding.
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Germany’s Clean-Energy Push Fuels Interdisciplinary Focus
The effort to make the country reliant on renewable energy has led to big changes at universities.
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Faculty Union, a Rarity at HBCUs, Is Poised to Emerge at Howard U.
Leaders of the effort to organize the historically black university’s part-time instructors expressed confidence in prevailing when votes are counted, on Wednesday.
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Lost Your Tenure Case? Get Ready for the Online Petition.
If you’re popular with students but spurned by your tenure committee, there’s a pretty fair chance you’ll end up on Change.org. Is that a help or a hindrance?
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Brown Ph.D. Students Protest Policy That Puts Funds in Limbo After 5th Year
To keep their stipends, humanities and social-sciences students who need more time have to fill out a form explaining why.
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Technology Provides Foreign-Language Immersion at a Distance
The method, called “teletandem,” is based on a simple idea for students: I teach you my language, you teach me yours.
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Readers of Marx and Engels Decry Publisher’s Assertion of Copyright
Even a press devoted to socialist thinkers must make money to survive. But its demand that an online archive remove works by communism’s founders is drawing criticism.
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Cyberlaw Scholar to Lead Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Jonathan Zittrain will be chair of the Board of Directors of the center, which is studying the future of the web.
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Tuskegee U. Selects President; Johns Hopkins Dean to Be Provost of UMass at Amherst
Brian Johnson goes to Tuskegee University from an administrative post at Austin Peay State University. Read about that and other job-related news.
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Once a First-Generation Student, Now a College President
In a video interview, Kathleen McCartney, president of Smith College, talks about the importance of mentors and how her background shapes her approach to leadership.
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