Tenure or Bust
Nearly 90 percent of professors at U of Wisconsin System would consider leaving state if tenure were abolished, and majority say it would limit scholarly inquiry, according the results of controversial survey.
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Nearly 90 percent of professors at U of Wisconsin System would consider leaving state if tenure were abolished, and majority say it would limit scholarly inquiry, according the results of controversial survey.
More than three-quarters of first-time international graduate students in the US are enrolled in master’s or certificate programmes, new data has found.
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Los Angeles schools have been closed as an unspecified threat emailed to the school district is being investigated.
New England accreditor says it's trying to update its standards, but many adjunct activists fear changes would undercut efforts to protect those off the tenure track.
Close to 200 university professors in South Korea are to stand trial over charges that they fraudulently put their names to books written by other academics as part of a racket with publishing companies to sell more publications.
When computer programmers in the 1970s chose the name "Isis" for their new information system, they were following a trend at the time to name such programs after Egyptian gods.
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