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A FLAGSHIP IS RAIDED
At cash-strapped public institutions like the University of Wisconsin at Madison, professors are being wooed away by competing institutions offering higher pay and better terms. Rebecca L. Walkowitz (above) left the English department at Madison last year for Rutgers University. (Photograph by Michael Kienitz)
Federal Court Sides With Nonmembers on Refunds of Union Dues
The faculty union at the City University of New York must make it easier for nonmembers to receive a partial rebate of their union dues, a federal judge ruled last week. Scientists May Be Putting Their Own Names on Papers Written by Companies Animal Researchers Persevere Despite Attacks Gap Persists Between Faculty Salaries at Public and Private Institutions U. of Southern California to Shutter Its German Department Guggenheim Foundation Announces 190 New Fellows for 2008 For Catholic Educators, Eagerness and Angst Attend Pope's Visit Scholars See Need to Redefine and Protect Academic Freedom Syllabus A multidisciplinary course at Southwestern University uses chocolate to teach just about everything — sweet! Notes PEER REVIEW: A new administrator in the University of Texas system will help students transfer from two-year colleges. ... A longtime employee is the next provost at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. ... An scholar of English who specializes in modernism heads west, from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale to Pomona College.
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