Posted on 05 February 2013.
As Harvard sought to bookend its massive cheating investigation with an announcement last Friday, students implicated in the scandal said the new information raised more questions than it answered.
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Posted on 17 August 2012.
Top editors of The Red & Black, U. Georgia’s student newspaper walked out of their newsroom this week after a dispute with the paper’s board of directors over editorial control of the paper.
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Posted on 14 August 2012.
The Middle States Commission on Higher Education issued Penn State President Rodney Erickson an accreditation warning on Aug. 8, according to a press release issued by the university.
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Posted on 09 July 2012.
A letter sent July 2 to President Barack Obama and top-ranking congressional officials signed by leaders from more than 100 American universities calls for new legislation to allow foreign-born students to stay in the country longer after their student visa expires upon graduation.
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Posted on 18 June 2012.
Authors of a recent Forbes article generated considerable buzz when they promoted a plan for the aggressive privatization of university services. While elimination of state political control may appeal to those put off by the latest rumors of the U. Texas Board of Regents’ dangerous partisanship, sweeping privatization of our campus invites trouble.
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Posted on 17 April 2012.
Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim will serve as the World Bank’s 12th president, the World Bank board of directors announced on Monday. Kim was elected over the only other remaining nominee, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
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Posted on 25 March 2012.
In 1998, a psychologist said the incidents surrounding Jerry Sandusky met all definitions of a “likely pedophile’s pattern of building trust and gradual introduction of physical touch, within a context of a ‘loving,’ ‘special’ relationship.”
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Posted on 22 February 2012.
Students and administrators are condemning the New York Police Department for reportedly monitoring Muslim students at Columbia U.
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Posted on 15 February 2012.
Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy has finally decided to tackle the issue of teacher tenure that has been hanging over the state’s head for quite some time.
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Posted on 03 February 2012.
A few years ago, walking around an upper-middle class neighborhood in southern California, I noticed that home sale prices were near the seven-figure range. Looking at the houses themselves and imagining the income levels of their occupants, my thought was: This can’t last. It’s unreal.
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