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news aggregatorAnger and Unease Follow Attacks on Santa Cruz ResearchersColleagues and neighbors are showing concern about two firebombings last week against researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz, in which animal-rights activists are suspected of being involved.
Enrollment Expert Gives Top 5 Reasons Why Student-Retention Strategies FailSomeone on a college's campus must take ultimate responsibility for keeping students enrolled and devote resources to students who are not at the highest risk of failing, said an enrollment official at DePaul University.
Public Universities Strive to Keep Coveted Faculty MembersAdministrators at public universities are using incentives that go beyond salary increases to persuade key faculty members not to leave.
Conservatives Claim Some Victories in Democratic Congress's Higher-Education BillThe Higher Education Act contains two provisions long sought by conservative groups, one affecting international-studies programs and the other promoting the teaching of traditional American history.
U.S. Revokes Visas for 3 Palestinian Fulbright ScholarsThe denial comes two months after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice intervened personally with Israeli officials to ensure that the three scholars would be able to study at American universities.
Admissions Experts Call for Broader Definition of College ReadinessColleges must find ways to measure nonacademic abilities, like leadership, that determine students' success, the experts said at a conference on enrollment research at the University of Southern California.
2 Authors Say Routledge Recycled Their Work Without CreditTwo authors say the publisher recycled much of their work for a series of books on theory across academic disciplines -- without always giving credit or, initially, royalty payments.
Sociologists Ponder the Costs of OverworkMany people work significantly more or fewer hours than they would prefer—and those schedules have put new strains on family life, said presenters at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Congress Bans Pell Grants for Sex OffendersAn amendment in the mammoth higher-education bill approved by Congress last week would prevent sexual offenders who are in civil-commitment centers from receiving the grants.
Temple U.'s Past Policy Violated Free-Speech Rights, Appeals Court SaysA federal appeals court ruled on Monday that a sexual-harassment policy that Temple University abandoned early last year was unconstitutionally broad and violated students' freedom of expression.
Animal-rights activists suspected in attacks on UC Santa Cruz researchersA car and a home were firebombed, forcing one scientist and his family to flee out a window. Authorities cite increasing violence against UC researchers.
Firebombs that struck the home and car of two UC Santa Cruz scientists this weekend were part of an increasingly aggressive campaign by animal rights activists against animal researchers at University of California campuses, officials said Monday. Firebombs Hit House and Car of 2 Santa Cruz Researchers in Separate AttacksThe attacks came days after fliers were found threatening violence against scientists who use animals in their research.
Education Dept. Blamed for Not Doing Enough to Promote GrantsHundreds of millions of dollars in grants for low-income college students have gone unused, and the department is being faulted by its own inspector general for not doing enough to promote the aid.
Sociologists Discuss Ideas for Improving Peer ReviewAt the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, four editors led a conversation about how to ensure that papers get fair and timely evaluations.
Air-Pollution Research Offers Surprises for Beijing OlympicsThe air quality in China may be more dangerous for older spectators at the Beijing Olympics than for athletes, scientists say.
Book examines four new teachers' experience at Watts' Locke High SchoolThe author observed the troubled campus and the Teach For America participants for a year. She says the most important ingredient of success is high-quality teachers.
Donna Foote spent a year at troubled Locke High School in Watts observing and documenting the workaday struggles of four new teachers. Los Angeles Southwest College is put on probationDistrict officials call the move by the regional accrediting agency 'an overreaction' and 'completely unprecedented.'
Los Angeles Southwest College has been placed on probation by the regional accrediting agency, an action local college officials call unwarranted. World BriefingJapan: New Cabinet unveiled / Brazil: Man confesses to teen's killing / Germany: Farmer gets two-arm transplant
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