Highlights From September 28, 2007
THE SPELLINGS REPORT, ONE YEAR LATER
The recommendations of the commission assembled by the education secretary are apparently encouraging colleges to document their performance.
Margaret Spellings, the education secretary, says the discussion spurred by her commission's report
is long overdue. "Are we done? Heck no," she says. "We haven't even started." (Photograph by Dennis Brack, Black Star)
ADMISSION LESSONS
A study asks what students learn, for better or worse, in the process of applying to college.
THE 'EFFICIENT FRONTIER'
Borrowing from how they analyze business, two economists at the College of William and Mary have devised a new method of comparing colleges' graduation rates.
CONTINENTAL COMPETITION
Looking to increase enrollments, European universities are challenging America's dominance in the foreign-student market.
NICE TO MEET YOU
At Wheaton College in Massachusetts, a semester-length orientation makes new faculty members feel welcome indeed.
CONVERSING MARGINALLY
New software for digital books updates a hallowed tradition of scholarship, the margin note, and lets readers comment on the comments.
INSTITUTIONAL WHIPLASH
The University of California at Irvine hired, rejected, and rehired a dean for its new law school in short order, raising questions about outside political interference.
SWEATING THE DETAILS
The NCAA expects to process more cases of rules infractions than ever this year, a result of increasing competitive pressure.
THE DIVERSE PROFESSORIATE
Although the number of scholars from minority groups has increased markedly in the past decade, some experts expected the numbers would be even higher by now.
DISCRIMINATION REDUX
To infer anything about a person's character or sensibility on the basis of physical racial characteristics is legally suspect. Yet that is what "diversity hiring" practices require us to do, writes Jennifer Dalton.
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