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Thursday, April 17, 2008 |
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Pope Benedict XVI is making his first visit to the United States as pope. (Photograph by Alessandra Benedetti, Corbis)
Awaiting the Pope With Eagerness and Angst
Next week's visit to the United States by Pope Benedict XVI has created anticipation — and anxiety — among the leaders of Roman Catholic higher education in this country. In interviews, four of those leaders present their views. 
Tony Fiorini Audio: Father O'Connell (left) describes how his institution is getting ready to welcome the pope.
Solution to Loan 'Crisis' May Create Bigger Problems
The Education Department's hasty drive to draft rules for a lender-of-last-resort system is one example of the ways in which the world of student loans has been turned upside down. More NewsQuietly, Virginia Tech Remembers the Chaos and Grief of a Year Ago Electronic Portfolios May Answer Calls for More Accountability Private Colleges Showed Healthy Investment Gains Last Year, but They Aren't Expected to Last One-Quarter of Community Colleges Do Not Offer Federal Loans, Study Finds Following in the Footsteps of Chase, Citibank Stops Lending to Certain Colleges Texas Tech Faculty Members Challenge Report's View of Their Teaching Time Federal Court Sides With Nonmembers on Refunds of Union Dues Online College Faces Criticism for Renting Out Space on '.edu' Domain The Chronicle Review
To All Appearances
In his latest work, the playwright Itamar Moses engagingly explores personal and aesthetic trickery, writes Julia M. Klein. Hitching's Hitches and Niches: Books on white weddings, Commie-fighting housewives of the 1950s, and tough career and family choices facing women today. New Scholarly BooksBrainstorm: Lives of the Mind Dan Greenberg Mark Bauerlein 
Quietly, Virginia Tech Remembers the Chaos and Grief of a Year Ago
Among other observances on the campus, friends of Reema Joseph Samaha, one of the students killed last April, placed a baseball cap and a rose in her honor. See a related article and a slide show of Wednesday's events. (Photograph by Rob Carr, AP Images) Chronicle Blogs(All times Eastern)
Bill Would Grant TA's at Private Colleges the Right to Form Unions Plan Is Said to Be Near for Federal Banks to Help Student Lenders Harvard Survey Shows Undergraduates -- but Not Graduate Students -- Like Video Lectures Affirmative Action Gets Hot-Potato Treatment in Democratic Debate Playing Soon at Tufts U.: Soundgarden Discussion Forums
The Brown Bag: Kevin Roberts, chief information officer at Abilene Christian University, will talk about his decision to give away iPhones and switch to Google e-mail — and whether other colleges can learn from his experiences. Join us for a live online discussion on Thursday, April 24, at 12 noon U.S. Eastern time.
Also of InterestExecutive CompensationThe Chronicle's annual survey on presidential pay shows compensation increasing fastest at the largest institutions. This special supplement includes searchable databases showing the pay and benefits for presidents at hundreds of colleges and universities. The Chronicle of PhilanthropyA Year of Slower Growth A guide to some of the best writing on the Web. |
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Chronicle Careers
Beyond the Ivory Tower
How did the lessons of graduate school help an English Ph.D. when he decided to join, and expand, his family's food-distribution business?
First Person
A new administrator in the University of Texas system will help students transfer from two-year colleges ... and other appointment news.
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A Ph.D. who returned to graduate school after working in publishing runs the interview gantlet at academic libraries.
On HiringStupid Application Tricks Low Faculty Salaries in History, and Other Reading |
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