Faculty
'We'll Work for Free'
In tough times, some retired faculty members have volunteered to teach or do other work. Only a few institutions have taken them up on the offer.
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Learning to Hate Learning Objectives
Many nuanced motivations drive both teaching and learning, but Mikita Brottman is pretty sure formal "objectives" don't describe them.
- Are We All Precious?
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The Likeness Across the Atlantic
From the Blogs
Brainstorm: Stephen Toulmin, 1922-2009: Michael Ruse pays tribute to one of his heroes, the influential philosopher of science.
Buildings & Grounds: Gingerbread, a Sustainable Building Material? Not only is it tastier than adobe, but it's also sort of useful when shaped into an I-beam, say two students at the University of British Columbia.
Financial Affairs
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In Gauging Their Economic Impact, Colleges Should Be Careful What They Measure
Colleges may not like to think of themselves as cogs in America's work-force-training machine. Time to get over it, writes Goldie Blumenstyk, or broaden the conversation.
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A Real-Life Lesson in Why Accountability Matters
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RIT Trades Invention Rights for Research Dollars and Says You Should, Too
Short Subjects
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Brochet (Rhymes With 'Crochet') Is a Guy Thing at the College of Wooster
A group of talented students with good color sense crochet hats for local charities.
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Bah, Humbug: It's an Old Refrain, but There Are Better Holiday Songs
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In the News
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AAUP President Says Group's Former Chief Weighed Courting Hugo Chávez for Funds
According to Cary Nelson, it was suggested that Venezuela's president be asked to finance the purchase of a new headquarters for the faculty group.
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Policy Makers Urged to Think More Broadly About Latino Students
Misconceptions about Latinos tend to produce a limited education-policy agenda, a new report says.
- New Measure of Student-Loan Defaults Could Threaten Hundreds of Colleges
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International Educators Call for Visa and Immigration Changes
- Paul Samuelson, Influential Economist and Nobel Laureate, Dies at 94
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New Athletic Director Is Reviving Roosevelt U. Sports, From Scratch
- 8 Arrested After Protesters Attack Berkeley Chancellor's House
- House Passes Bill That Would Tighten Rules on Private Student Loans
- High Official in Education Department Has Warm Words for For-Profit Colleges
- Secretive Scholars of the Old South
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The Ticker
- Wisconsin Governor Vetoes Bill Requiring Geographic Diversity on Board of Regents
- Whistle-Blower Case Against U. of Phoenix Is Settled
- 'Learning Disability' Diagnoses Help Some Athletes at Florida State U.
- Police Chief at Northern Illinois U. Is Cleared of Allegations Lodged by Student Journalist
- Spending Bill With Increases for Pell Grants, NIH, and NSF Heads to Obama
Wired Campus
- E-Textbook Publisher Strives to Make Titles More Accessible to the Blind
- Free Web Site Helps Harvard Students Cut Class
- Business-Backed Group Tells Colleges to Follow For-Profit Model When It Comes to Teaching
Arts & Letters Daily
Before the Bauhaus, modernism was a volatile, centrifugal affair: Cubist, Futurist, Constructivist. After the Bauhaus, it gained a coherent focus. More
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