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With God on Our Side
At Clemson University, religion is crucial to the football program. The coach wouldn’t have it any other way.
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A Truce Over Technology
Meeting face to face, San Jose State professors on opposite sides of an online teaching debate find common ground.
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Spotlight on Campus Responses to Rape Puts Presidents in a Bind
Leaders like UConn’s Susan Herbst are discovering that as much as students want action, they are equally attuned to tone.
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Everyone Has a Solution for Higher Education
A movement for reform has united thinkers from the right and the left against the higher-education establishment.
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Obama Puts $100-Million Behind Quest to Improve Tech Training
The grants encourage letting students earn college and industry credentials while in high school. Critics applaud the goal but question the method.
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Still Hunting Medical Triumphs, Genomics Experts Turn to the IT Department
The National Science Foundation has convened a group of elite academic and corporate researchers to imagine a specialized supercomputer for DNA data.
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‘Gainful Employment’ Negotiations to Be Extended
Because of its delay in producing data on how the rule would affect colleges, the Education Department agreed to another meeting of the panel.
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New Graduates Will Enter a Slowly Improving Job Market
Job opportunities will increase by 2 percent for graduates across all degree levels, says a report from researchers at Michigan State University.
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Teaching Clearly: a Deceptively Simple Way to Improve Learning
Three studies further document a correlation between students’ perceptions of professors’ teaching and subsequent improvements in performance.
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Advocates for Adjunct Instructors Think Broadly in Search for Allies
Adjuncts’ best allies at universities, people attending a weekend forum said, are not tenured faculty members but students and hourly service workers.
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Wired Campus: MOOCs Are Largely Reaching Privileged Learners, Survey Finds
More than 80 percent of respondents had a two- or four-year degree, and 44 percent had some graduate education, according to a poll of 35,000 students taking the online...
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Wired Campus: Wellcome Trust, Palgrave Macmillan Publish Their First Open-Access Monograph
Open but not cheap: A leading sponsor of biomedical research and a major commercial publisher venture into new ground.
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Virginia Tech Professors Fault University’s Tepid Defense of Controversial Colleague
After a professor criticized “support our troops” sloganeering, the university issued a statement saying it was sure the campus did not share his views.
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When Support Services Exist, Veterans Fare Well in Class, Report Says
They stay enrolled, post solid grade-point averages, and complete nearly all of the credits they pursue, according to a study of 23 campuses.
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One Academic’s Efforts Aid Arab Students Across Israel
Yosef Jabareen has helped an elite Israeli institute enroll more Arab students. Now a $170-million government program wants to duplicate his success.
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Saudi Limits on Online Courses Leave U.S. Colleges Guessing
A scholarship program that sends nearly 45,000 Saudi students to the United States restricts the number of online classes they may take. But the rules remain unclear.
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Harvard Researcher Who Gave Voice to Faculty Discontent to Step Down
Cathy A. Trower has spent more than a decade revealing what faculty members think about their job conditions and helping colleges improve them.
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Co-Author of ‘Academically Adrift,’ Richard Arum, Joins Gates Foundation
The NYU scholar’s one-year position at the foundation signals its sharpened focus on educational quality.
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Transitions: U. of Idaho Appoints New President; Kennedy Center President Moves to U. of Maryland
Chuck Staben, provost at the University of South Dakota, will lead the University of Idaho. Read about that and other job-related news.
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American Leads Chinese Business School’s Westward Expansion
Gregory Marchi will help one of China’s leading business schools to sink roots in the United States.
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Doris Lessing and Frederick Sanger, Nobel Laureates, Die in Their 90s
Doris Lessing won her prize in literature, and Frederick Sanger won two prizes in chemistry. Read about that and other deaths in academe.
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Selected New Books on Higher Education
New titles cover issues like the reinvention of libraries and the benefits of devoting a gap year to volunteer work between high school and college.
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