Executive Pay
What Public-College
Presidents Make
Public outcry over presidential pay has intensified, but it appears to have done little to affect what presidents earn at public research institutions.
Chart Compare executives' salaries with those of their faculty. |
Analysis How can public systems recruit top talent amid public scrutiny? |
Table Browse data about the leaders at 199 colleges. |
In the World
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Educators Debate Rankings' Negative Effects on Latin American Universities
Elite research institutions in the English-speaking world dominate international lists. Universities with different strengths lose out in decisions based on those lists.
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For Universities Looking Abroad, Brazil Promises Opportunity and Challenge
- WorldWise: Correcting 'The Great Brain Race'
Live Chat: Engineering Goes International

Innovators in Internationalization
Join us on Wednesday, May 23, at 12 noon, U.S. Eastern time, for a discussion with Sigrid Berka and John M. Grandin as they talk about how one Rhode Island university has married engineering and foreign languages.
From the Blogs
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Stolen Ideas? Or Great Minds Thinking Alike?
A simmering controversy over whether the ideas in a Berkeley anthropologist’s new book are really his boils over.
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The Oldest Profession
You can trace the origin of language to a prehistoric lexicographer, says Allan Metcalf.
- Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Teachers
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The Unabomber's Pen Pal
The philosopher David F. Skrbina doesn't endorse Ted Kaczynski's violence. But he says some of the notorious anti-technologist's ideas are...
- Is America Philosophical?
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Crony Capitalism for Intellectuals
In the U.S.
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State Department Directive Could Disrupt Confucius Institutes on Campuses
A memo warns that many teachers at the centers, which are a key piece of China's diplomatic outreach, are violating their visas and must leave next month.
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U.S. May Require College Language Programs to Get Special Accreditation
A Homeland Security agency has told university-run language programs they must show evidence of separate accreditation or risk losing eligibility to enroll foreign students.
- Psychiatrist's Apology Stands Out From Typical Scientific Regrets
- As Elite Colleges Invite the World Online, Questions Remain on Their Business Plans
- New Dean's Mission: Expand the Reconfigured Jack Welch Institute
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Top Business Schools Look to Social Scientists to Enhance Research
- President of California U. of Pennsylvania Is Fired
- Building a Digital Map of Scholarly Archival Materials
- Quest for College Accountability Demands Yet More Data
- IRS Is Urged to Reduce Paperwork Burden on Colleges and Other Charities
The Ticker
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When liberals invoke Jewish tradition, it’s to the prophets they turn. But the prophets’ calls for justice, says Michael Walzer, weren’t political. They were demands for submission to God. More











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