http://chronicle.com/section/News/6/ News Tue, 29 May 2012 21:36:56 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132034/ http://chronicle.com/article/Too-Many-As-Proposal-Could/132034/ To discourage grade inflation, a chemistry professor wants transcripts to include the percentage of students who received the same grade.

]]> Tue, 29 May 2012 21:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132030/ http://chronicle.com/article/Attorneys-General-Urge/132030/ The attorneys general of 21 states say current policy encourages for-profit colleges to use "high-pressure recruiting tactics" on military veterans.

]]> Tue, 29 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132032/ http://chronicle.com/article/Kalamazoo-Valley-Part-Time/132032/ Leaders of the unionization drive said it was a response to excessive pressures and demands imposed on adjuncts by the Michigan college's administration last fall.

]]> Tue, 29 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132029/ http://chronicle.com/article/As-He-Prepares-to-Retire/132029/ Charles B. Reed says he had to be "a warrior" to guide the 23-campus system through financially tough times.

]]> Mon, 28 May 2012 21:13:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132021/ http://chronicle.com/article/EcoCar-Competition-Drives/132021/ Teams from 15 universities are competing in the U.S. Department of Energy's latest Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions, now in their 25th year.

]]> Sun, 27 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131959/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-New-Indian-University-Hopes/131959/ Azim Premji University intends to train professionals and policy makers who can transform India's failed schools.

]]> Sun, 27 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131982/ http://chronicle.com/article/National-Network-Will-Help/131982/ The U.S. Departments of Labor and Education are planning a consortium in which colleges will award credit for students' prior learning in apprenticeships.

]]> Sun, 27 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132014/ http://chronicle.com/article/Plans-for-Farmland-Set-Johns/132014/ Relatives of Elizabeth Banks say the university's development plans fail to honor an agreement with her that the property would be used primarily for a campus.

]]> Sun, 27 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132009/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Very-Model-of-a-Modern/132009/ A visit with the founder of the campus civility movement.

]]> Sun, 27 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132006/ http://chronicle.com/article/Under-the-Banner-of-/132006/ What the efforts share is an inability to measure their long-term effects.

]]> Sun, 27 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131957/ http://chronicle.com/article/Faculty-Unions-Mobilize-to/131957/ Especially in Wisconsin, where collective-bargaining rights have been under assault, academic-labor activists are working for candidates friendly to unions.

]]> Sun, 27 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131960/ http://chronicle.com/article/As-Top-Law-Schools-Trim/131960/ Thomas M. Cooley Law School, well established in Michigan, finds a reason to grow in Florida, despite the slumping job market for lawyers.

]]> Sun, 27 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132017/ http://chronicle.com/article/US-Hopes-to-Fix-Visa/132017/ The State Department eases its earlier stance and says will investigate a "mess-up" involving some 600 teachers affiliated with university-based Confucius Institutes.

]]> Fri, 25 May 2012 04:55:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132026/ http://chronicle.com/article/Planned-Shutdown-of-U-of/132026/ Such announcements about other presses have often spurred protests and attempts to save them, but so far, the news from Missouri has been greeted quietly.

]]> Fri, 25 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132004/ http://chronicle.com/article/Commencement-Scenes-Field/132004/ Glimpses of life in academe from around the world.

]]> Fri, 25 May 2012 00:52:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132016/ http://chronicle.com/article/Share-of-Students-Receiving/132016/ Eighty-five percent of students over all receive financial aid. At for-profit institutions, 92 percent do, says an Education Department report.

]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 20:33:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132015/ http://chronicle.com/article/Charles-Reed-Plans-to-Retire/132015/ As chancellor of the California State University system, he has worked to widen access and coped with severe budget cuts, winning both praise and criticism.

]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 19:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132012/ http://chronicle.com/article/Senate-Leaders-Urge-Compromise/132012/ Both parties say they want to extend a lower interest rate on some loans for a year, but House and Senate votes show that they're still at odds over how to pay for it.

]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 17:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132008/ http://chronicle.com/article/View-Angelo-Armentis/132008/ Mr. Armenti, who was recently fired as president of California University of Pennsylvania, accuses system officials of plotting to "denigrate my achievements."

]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 15:55:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132005/ http://chronicle.com/article/Labor-Relations-Board-Seeks/132005/ The agency is soliciting legal briefs on the question of whether or not faculty members at private colleges should be considered managers.

]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/132007/ http://chronicle.com/article/Federal-Court-Will-Re-examine/132007/ The lawsuit alleges that the hospital billed for surgical procedures performed by interns who were not properly supervised by teaching physicians.

]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131964/ http://chronicle.com/article/Campuses-Draw-Lessons-From-a/131964/ Officials are rethinking policies on how to achieve a balance between letting students speak their minds and protecting public safety.

]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 21:59:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131963/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Fired-President-Lashes-Out/131963/ Angelo Armenti Jr., who led California University of Pennsylvania for two decades, says the state system's chancellor plotted to undermine his authority.

]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 20:58:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131962/ http://chronicle.com/article/Flap-Over-Visas-Could-Harm/131962/ The official was concerned about the suddenness of a U.S. decision that Chinese language teachers have been using the wrong visa and will have to leave.

]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 20:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131958/ http://chronicle.com/article/Romney-Pledges-to-Simplify/131958/ The presumed Republican presidential nominee blamed federal student aid for rising college tuition but did not call for specific cuts in programs.

]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 01:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131954/ http://chronicle.com/article/EducationIncome-Levels/131954/ College graduates are more likely to vote, and they pay greater attention to public affairs than people who did not finish high school, say the authors of a new report.

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