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An Unusual Marriage of Engineering and Languages
The University of Rhode Island's international-engineering program enrolls students for five years, sends them overseas, and gives them two degrees.
Executive Pay
What Public-College Presidents Make
Public outcry over presidential pay has intensified, but it appears to have done little to affect what presidents earn at public research institutions.
How can public systems recruit top talent amid public scrutiny?
Chart: Presidents' vs. Professors' Pay
Table: All the Presidents' Salaries
In the World
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Northern Arizona U. Overhauls Curriculum to Focus on 'Global Competence'
An ambitious effort to include global learning across the curriculum puts the university in the vanguard of a new movement.
- Planet Academe: American Academics Need Cultural Humility
- Educators Debate Rankings' Negative Effects on Latin American Universities
From the Blogs
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This American Epistemological Crisis.
How many people were really taking Sedaris seriously? For that matter, Ira Glass?
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On Not Squandering the Summer
A job seeker finds that when it comes to preparing for a search, it’s a mistake to put off until tomorrow what you could do today.
- What Constitutes Peer Review for Textbooks -- and Who Cares?
Corresponding With a Killer
The Unabomber's Pen Pal
The philosopher David F. Skrbina doesn't endorse Ted Kaczynski's violence. But he says some of the notorious anti-technologist's ideas are valid.
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In the U.S.
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State Department Denies Targeting Confucius Institutes but Holds to Decision on Visas
With the status of potentially hundreds of Chinese language teachers set to arrive this fall in doubt, institute directors have been scrambling to find a solution.
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Archive Watch: Building a National Cooperative for Archival Standards
A meeting this week at the National Archives focused on devising a way to reliably, thoroughly describe archival holdings so that they’re findable by anyone.
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Supreme Court Is Urged to Consider Scrapping Its 2003 Endorsement of Race-Conscious Admissions
- Student-Aid Group Releases Recommendations for Improving Award Letters
- Faculty Group Blasts Kentucky's 'Professional' Hoops Approach
- Federal Advisory Panel Pans Recommended Overhaul of State Grant-Aid Programs
- Education and Income Levels Are Key Predictors of Civic Involvement, Report Says
- For-Profit-College Group Bars News Media From Key Sessions at Annual Meeting
- Federal Consumer Loan Watchdog Investigates For-Profit Colleges
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A Veteran and Father Graduates From a College He Long Dreamed of Attending
Arts & Letters Daily
Kurt Vonnegut's decline began when he traded being a writer for being a celebrity and, worse, a spokesman for his facile faith of niceness. At least he deteriorated with eyes wide open. … More
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