Personal and Professional Factors Affect Researchers' Productivity, Study Finds
Why do some professors pile up articles in refereed journals or present their research at conferences more than their colleagues do? According to a new study, faculty members' gender, their marital status, and whether they have dependent children are among the factors that make a difference. A professor's discipline and where he or she works affects research productivity, too. A paper...
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Amid Calls for Change, College Majors Seem Firmly Fixed
The more academe changes, the more the list of majors stays the same, even though some experts say a radical reorganization of disciplines is needed.
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5 College Majors On the Rise
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Why Mark Taylor Wants to Abolish Your Department
An interview with the Columbia U. professor of religion who proposes basing higher education on networks rather than grids.
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Students and Businesses Demand More Training in Job Skills
Some college experts say that more institutions will start looking like the University of Phoenix, with job-focused courses aimed at working adults.
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How They Did It: Computational Science
It takes collaboration to start a major in this up-and-coming discipline, as institutions like the State University of New York College at Brockport have learned.
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How They Did It: Public Health
Despite turf anxieties and concerns about rigor, a new undergraduate program at the University of South Carolina is off to a smooth start.
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It Pays to Be Nimble: New Majors at Community Colleges
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Libraries
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In Face of Professors' 'Fury,' Syracuse U. Library Will Keep Books on Shelves
Two hundred people attended a University Senate meeting to discuss ways to avoid sending part of the library's print collection to storage.
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Research Librarians Discuss How to Sell Scholars on Open Access, and More
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College Library Directors Protest 'Scientific American' Price Jump
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Academic Freedom
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AAUP Announces Effort to Shore Up Academic Freedom at Public Colleges
The organization's campaign responds to recent federal-court decisions seen as eroding faculty members' speech rights.
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Scholars' Right to Keep Unpublished Work Private Is at Issue in Lawsuit
Curriculum
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Despite Success of Some Programs, 3-Year Degrees Draw Skepticism at Meeting
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A Defender of the Liberal Arts Contemplates Their Changing Role
Azar Nafisi, who is working on a book that stands up for the liberal arts, spoke at a meeting of provosts of independent colleges.
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Putting Learning Under a Microscope
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Research
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The Apes of Wrath
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Gaps in Immigrants' Education Levels Play Into Canada's Edge Over U.S., Researchers Say
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Colleges Can Benefit by Steering More Aid to the Needy, Studies Suggest
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Labor & Work Life
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Professors Threaten No-Confidence Vote Against President of Oakland U.
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