Observer
I've Read the News Today, Oh Boy
Wherever newspapers are going, certain types of articles will survive, writes Ben Yagoda.
UCLA Students Protest Tuition Hike
Tempers flared and Taser guns came out Wednesday when students protested a decision to raise tuition throughout the University of California.
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We Need 'Philosophy of Journalism'
Philosophy and journalism, two well-known approaches to truth seeking, make strange companions—and invaluable ones, writes Carlin Romano.
- University-Based Reporting Could Keep Journalism Alive
- Academe and the Decline of News Media
Women in Science
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Title IX Includes Maternal Discrimination
It's family-unfriendly policies — not lack of interest or commitment — that turn many women away from academic science.
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Colleges and Federal Agencies Should Help Women in Science, Report Says
The authors suggest steps that universities and grant-making agencies could take to keep women on the path toward careers in academic science.
Atwitter About Twitter
Conference Humiliation: They're Tweeting Behind Your Back
Speakers have more to fear these days than losing their notes. The audience could excoriate them on Twitter.
From the Forums: It may not be long before professors in the classroom have to worry about Twitter, too.
Chronicle Blogs
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Nebraska Regents, Just Barely, Endorse Research on Embryonic Stem Cells
A proposal that the university system observe limits on stem-cell studies imposed by the Bush administration fails on a tie vote.
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Friends and Colleagues Search for a Missing Scholar, Philip Agre
The associate professor of information sciences stopped showing up at the UCLA campus, and now other scholars are seeking him via Twitter and Facebook.
- Lincoln U. Requires Its Students to Step on the Scale
- Business Software, Built by Colleges for Colleges, Challenges Commercial Giants
- Video: At UCLA, Tuition-Hike Protests Turn Raucous
- Federal Audit Faults Universities Over Researchers' Financial Conflicts of Interest
- Number of Doctorates Rose Slightly in 2008, in Summary of Delayed NSF Report
- A Florida Professor Helps Launch a New Space Industry
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Lecturing Aboard the 9:04 to Tel Aviv, Israel's Train of Thought
- Professors of the Year Are Celebrated for Innovative Teaching
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The Ticker
- U. Washington Provost Named to Nike Board
- UC-Berkeley Sit-In Ends With Arrests
- Fairmont State U.'s Board Chair Quits After Berating Coach
- Protesters Take Over Academic Building at Berkeley
- U. of Nebraska Regents Reject New Limits on Stem-Cell Research
Wired Campus
- New Group Encourages Colleges to Start Programs in 'Web Science'
- Stanford Doctoral Students Can Now Submit Dissertations Online
- Teaching Tool: Blogging a Mass Killing
Arts & Letters Daily
Françoise d’Aubigné: born in a prison to a murderer, was a child beggar, then later on governess to Louis XIV’s children, and finally his mistress and wife. More
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