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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 |
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Home-Schooled Students Rise in Supply and Demand
Home-schooled students are applying to college by the thousands, compelling admissions officers to devise new policies. More NewsCongress Again Tries to Force Colleges to Curb Student Music and Video Piracy 2 European Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Nanotech Discovery Used in Computer Hard Drives MIT Receives $100-Million Gift for Cancer-Research Center Harvard Lives Up to a Public Mission Few Minority Coaches Are Found in Big-Time College Football Faculty Feel Disconnected From Athletics A Scholar Studies the Stories Trees Tell Multimedia: the Historian's Take on Wood Rumbles Over Wardrobe Warnings Magazine & Journal Reader The Chronicle Review
Ann H. Franke and Meyer Eisenberg offer rules for avoiding conflicts of interest.
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Grant Mukai (above), a sophomore at Boston U., was home-schooled and sometimes attended a co-op school in a church basement: "Normally I say I went to a private school." (Photograph by Rick Friedman) Read story Chronicle Blogs(All times Eastern)
Another Scholar, an Expert on Comics, Is Denied a U.S. Visa Polytechnic U. Board Endorses Plan to Merge With NYU Cornell Students Use Grades on Web Site to Find Snap Courses, Report Says Consumer Group Urges Colleges to Limit Credit-Card Marketing A Community College Dreams Big Discussion Forums
Forum: Professional wrestling? Trolling for Krispy Kremes? What are your guilty pleasures? Share them online. 
The Brown Bag: Merrill L. Johnson, associate dean of the University of New Orleans's College of Liberal Arts, will answer your questions about whether Second Life can be a useful distance-education platform, on Thursday, October 11, at 12 noon, U.S. Eastern time.
The Brown Bag: S. Michael Evans, an architect who has designed campuses across North America for 20 years, will answer your questions about what the sustainability movement has to say to campus planners, on Thursday, October 18, at 12 noon, U.S. Eastern time. Also of InterestBlog on ArchitectureBuildings & Grounds, a Chronicle blog, follows news pertinent to college and university facilities managers, architects, and anyone interested in campus design and construction. The Chronicle of PhilanthropySparking Innovation A guide to some of the best writing on the Web. |
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Chronicle Careers
An Academic in America
Repeat to yourself, "I am too cool to be a professor, I am too cool to be a professor."
Career News
A computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon who is dying of cancer did not intend to become an Internet star. But he did, and he's looking on the bright side, as usual.
Ms. Mentor
Maybe, says Ms. Mentor, students and professors aren't meant to be good pals.
On HiringThe AACSB has come up with a novel plan to fill a shortage of business professors: get Ph.D.'s from other disciplines to teach business Here's what some universities are doing to retain top fund raisers |
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