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Federal Panel Shows Greater Tolerance of Letting Colleges Define Their Own Measures of Success
A chastened federal review panel on Tuesday opened its first round of assessments […]
A chastened federal review panel on Tuesday opened its first round of assessments […]
The biannual gatherings of the committee that advises the U.S. education secretary on accreditation have not traditionally been must-attend events. And while it’d be a stretch to say that getting a seat at next...
A dispute over the federal agency charged with reviewing college accreditors may come to a boil at a key review session next month, when the waning Bush administration will have one of its highest-profile...
Higher education—dominated by left-leaning faculty—has become, in many instances, a politically charged arena that stifles free exchange of ideas and should be made more ideologically diverse with new academic programs and departments, argued scholars...
The Education Department has hit a series of roadblocks in its effort to bring “accountability”—a hallmark of its No Child Left Behind initiative for the lower grades—to colleges and universities. Congress is poised to...
Sometimes, it’s not very good to give, or to receive. Princeton University is in the midst of a contentious legal dispute with a former donor’s family concerning a gift now worth almost $900 million....
In a legal battle watched nervously by universities around the country, a New Jersey judge yesterday sent to trial a dispute between Princeton University and the heirs of a supermarket fortune and left open...
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