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At What Cost?
Professor Melanie R. Benson has absorbed an impressive body of knowledge, and a lifetime of debt.
In a Washington Minute
Episode 34: New Rules for For-Profit Colleges? The Education Department wants to tighten regulations on how the institutions administer basic-skills tests and compensate student recruiters.
Episode 33: A Partisan Divide on Student Loans: Democrats on Capitol Hill are urging colleges to plan for the end of bank-based student lending, but Republicans want to renew a program that aids the bank-based system.
Peer Review
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Violinist Brings Global Experience to U. of Texas Classroom
For a violinist who has traveled all over the world, the University of Texas at Austin has come to seem like home.
- A Florida Professor Helps Launch a New Space Industry
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Professor and Prolific Inventor Is Honored by White House
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Community College, With a Laugh Track
M. Garrett Bauman compares a sitcom's take on community colleges with his own experiences.
- The Images Dancing in David Gelernter's Head
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Area Studies in a Global Context
Ms. Mentor
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Great Man, Awful Speech
What do you do when the big cheese smells?
- I Hate Myself When I'm Teaching
- What's Yours and What's Mine?
Bestsellers
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What They're Reading on College Campuses
A list of the best-selling books.
Chronicle Blogs
In the News
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Education Dept. Suggests Eliminating 'Safe Harbors' on Incentive Compensation
The proposal is one of several in a draft released to a negotiating panel that is considering changes in regulations affecting for-profit colleges.
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Software Giants Hawk Boutique Approach in Tight Times
The biggest college software vendors say they are breaking up their giant expensive products into smaller, cheaper modules to save colleges money.
- Colleges Are Urged to Defend Free Speech Against Threats of Violence
- Audio: New Federal Rules Proposed for For-Profit Colleges
- Israel Frees Palestinian Professor After 20 Months Without Trial
- Author of Mideast-Policy Study Wins Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order
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Economic Crisis Creates a New Brand of Communication From the Top
- Obama's Mother's Dissertation Gets Star Treatment From Duke U. Press
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Latin America Looks to Europe for Teaching Reform
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Libraries Explore Big Ideas to Overcome Small Budgets
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The Ticker
- Climate Researcher Steps Aside While University Investigates Hacked E-Mail
- Part-Time Instructors Declare Big Organizing Victory at Suffolk U.
- For-Profit College Company to Get Pennsylvania Tax Breaks for Adding Jobs
- New Guide Offers Help in Assessing Threats From Troubled Students
- Rutgers U. Settles Groundskeepers' Race-Bias Lawsuit
Wired Campus
- Can Google Maps Help Define an Israeli-Palestine Border?
- New Mobile Site Makes Coffee Breaks More Efficient
- Too Much Reading? Try Listening Instead
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If any one year can be said to be a transformative time in the life of a university, then the past 12 months have been such a year for Hofstra. Hofstra learned it would host the third and final 2008 presidential debate, announced plans for a...
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