Faculty
Top Business Schools Look to Social Scientists to Enhance Research
The tight academic job market has given some the incentive to explore faculty positions outside their disciplines.
In the World
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For Universities Looking Abroad, Brazil Promises Opportunity and Challenge
Drawn by the country's prosperity and commitment to higher education, British and American institutions are looking south. But partnerships aren't always easy to form.
- WorldWise: Correcting 'The Great Brain Race'
- Quebec Plans to Suspend Semester to Ease Student Strike
The Trillion-Dollar Question
What Does $1-Trillion in Student Debt Really Mean? Maybe Not That Much
Student-loan debt is in the spotlight, but what does the total amount outstanding really tell us?
Student Loans Have Become 'Pawn in the Latest Political Fight'
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From the Blogs
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The Real Power of the Phantom Mind
Paralyzed patients can control robot arms with their brains.
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Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Teachers
Some say teaching is a calling. “I just pray that if my kids get the call, they don’t pick up,” Rob Jenkins writes.
- Paint It High and Deep
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Is Death Bad for You?
It sure seems like it, but ...
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From Icky to Etsy, Victorian Craft Lives On
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Portnoy's Enduring Complaint
From Graduate School to Welfare
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The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food Stamps
Many people with master's degrees and Ph.D.'s are surviving on government assistance, and their numbers are rising fast.
In the U.S.
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President of California U. of Pennsylvania Is Fired
Angelo Armenti Jr., who had led the public institution for 20 years, was terminated a day before the release of an audit that criticized university financial dealings.
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Building a Digital Map of Scholarly Archival Materials
The project is meant to make the paper chase easier for researchers by showing which collections hold the documents they want.
- Quest for College Accountability Demands Yet More Data
- Stolen Ideas? Or Great Minds Thinking Alike?
- IRS Is Urged to Reduce Paperwork Burden on Colleges and Other Charities
- With Choice of New Leader, College Board Hopes to Extend Its Reach
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NIH Is Prodded to Consider a Better Science for Allocating Research Dollars
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Groups Voice Concerns Over New Rules on Veterans' Education Benefits
- MIT Names Its Provost, Who Led Online-Education Efforts, as New President
- U. of North Texas-Dallas Seeks Faculty Views on Bain's 'New University' Model
Arts & Letters Daily
Abstruse paper is published in scholarly journal. PR guy runs headlong with one conjecture. Journalists tart it up as a "claim." Result: Intelligent dinosaurs rule alien worlds! ... More
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