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Universities Must Disclose More Data on Animal-Research Procedures Jul 03, 2009 13:00:00 GMT

A court settlement requires the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make public more information about research on animals, prompting some academic researchers to worry about further attacks by animal-rights extremists.

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New Allegations in Admissions Controversy at U. of Illinois Suggest Ex-Provost Played a Role Jul 03, 2009 15:46:03 GMT

The shoes keep dropping as the Chicago Tribune digs deeper into allegations that politically connected applicants have used a range of techniques to gain admission to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Today the newspaper reported that a Greek Orthodox priest got help from the state tre

Sonoma State U. Foundation May Lose $350,000 on Loan to Former Board Member Jul 03, 2009 00:48:00 GMT

A Sonoma State University foundation that provides scholarships to students stands to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars because it lent $1.25-million to a financier and former board member who is facing bankruptcy, a newspaper reported. The Sonoma State University Academic Foundation issued mor

Court Overturns $2-Million Verdict for Former Coach at U. of Louisiana-Lafayette Jul 02, 2009 18:45:47 GMT

A Louisiana appeals court has struck down a $2-million jury verdict in a race-discrimination lawsuit brought by a former football coach at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The coach, Jerry Baldwin, one of the few African-American coaches in big-time college football, was fired in 2001 afte

Bedbugs 1, Charity 0 Jul 02, 2009 15:10:17 GMT

Never underestimate the power of pests to ruin a good thing on college campuses. This week the notorious villains known as bedbugs forced Colorado State University at Fort Collins to cancel its annual Great Sofa Roundup, which allows students to donate unwanted couches to other folks. According to

Water-Main Break Damages Library at University in St. Louis Jul 02, 2009 14:50:26 GMT

Summer classes at Harris-Stowe State University resumed today, but the library remains closed, after a water-main break on the St. Louis campus on Wednesday sent a geyser of water into the air and across the quad, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Water gushed through the library’s bac

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Arts & Letters Daily (03 Jul 2009) Jul 03, 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Forty years ago, when men walked on the Moon and drove their buggies over the lunar landscape, we all lived on a different earth... more Have religious people at last worked out how to serve both God and Mammon? Is ours the age of the "pastorpreneur"?... more Our very own Philosopher-in-Chief. It'

Arts & Letters Daily (02 Jul 2009) Jul 02, 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Stripper memoirs. It's puzzling that such promising and prurient subject matter can lead to such flat, dull books. Katie Roiphe explains... more Saturated with lachrymose melodies, dirgelike rhythms and the ghastly, fatal oompahs of sad waltzes, the songs and symphonies of Gustav Mahler... more

Arts & Letters Daily (01 Jul 2009) Jul 01, 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Many believe that China will follow the models of Korea and Taiwan and become an economic giant. Don't be too sure... more Harvard president Charles W. Eliot saw his Five-Foot Shelf as "a good substitute for a liberal education." Maybe it still is... more President Obama echoes gloomy think tan

Arts & Letters Daily (30 Jun 2009) Jun 30, 2009 04:00:00 GMT

J.G. Ballard's experience of Shanghai was, he said, closer to the normal lives of the majority of people in the 20th century than most realize... more Ought victimhood to be passed down to future generations? How about a moral statute of limitations on historic wrongs?... more Conspiracy theori

Arts & Letters Daily (29 Jun 2009) Jun 29, 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Language pervades the deepest domains of thought, shaping us from the nuts and bolts of perception to our loftiest abstract notions and major life decisions... more God has mellowed. Sure, he gets sore about abortion and gay marriage, but he's really nothing like the Yahweh of the Hebrew Bible...

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Thanks for Reading Campaign U. Nov 07, 2008 17:15:34 GMT

After many months of twists and turns, the 2008 election season has come to a close. And that brings us to the end of our Campaign U. blog, too. Thanks for joining us over the past year as we covered the various ways that higher education intersected with the campaigns and the candidates. Watch f

UT-Brownsville President Chosen for Obama Transition Team Nov 06, 2008 19:53:00 GMT

President-elect Barack Obama is still forming his transition team, but he’s already planning to include a college president with roots in the national higher-education establishment. Mr. Obama has chosen Juliet V. Garcia, president of the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost Col

Election Scholars’ 2008 Post Mortems Nov 06, 2008 19:05:21 GMT

As our campaign blog winds toward its demise, let’s revisit a few of the political scientists who have been featured in The Chronicle this fall: 1. Two weeks ago, we profiled Andrew Gelman, a political statistician at Columbia University. At the end of that article, we quoted Gelman saying that o

Obama Advised to Make TV (but Not Education) an Urgent Priority Nov 06, 2008 19:04:50 GMT

Before he can think about improving U.S. education, fixing the nation’s health-care system, or helping to repair the global environment, President-elect Barack Obama may have several more pressing priorities. Among them: finding a replacement for the space shuttle and ensuring the continued avail

Stem Cells, Economic Stimulus Top Democratic Agenda in New Congress Nov 05, 2008 19:56:06 GMT

In her first post-election speech today, Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said Democrats will move quickly on economic-stimulus legislation and a bill to relax federal restrictions on stem-cell research. She also acknowledged that the nation’s economic struggles

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