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A vain man struggles with the threat to his self-importance that student evaluations represent. His writing, in the New York Times, is an example of something UDs written about on University ...

The Greek government has once again given up efforts to prod that country's dead university system to life - violent street protests last summer frightened off political reformers -- but France's ...

"[T]he NCAA, through all of their summits, hasn't accomplished anything to benefit the student athlete. People who say that one year of college enhances your life are blowing smoke up their ...

The things I'll do for a post! I've dragged myself through hellish evening heat (summer's up and running in DC) to the Scena Theatre at the Arts Club of Washington to attend a Bloomsday event: a ...

With her interest in the grotesqueries of bigtime university sports, UD has read tons of reports from tons of influential organizations about how to reform them. The Knight Commission is ...

Like a number of big sports campuses, Auburn University has designated faculty-enablers who smooth the way toward a bogus degree for athletes who don't have time to take courses and read books and ...

Europe's worst university system -- and that's saying a lot -- has done it again. Ten senior academics at Panteion University in Athens have stolen almost eight million dollars in state funds over ...

Everyone focuses on neurasthenic high school juniors desperate to get into good colleges, but let's shift for a moment to the professors awaiting them. Today's New York Times features exactly the ...

How stupid are American university students, professors, and sports boosters willing to be? Very, Selena Roberts points out in today's New York Times. They'll spend all their money on coaches ...

When a high-profile, well-compensated professor who’s also his university’s assistant vice president of government relations is convicted of a serious crime, you know he’ll find the right ...