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Faculty members accuse the University of Tulsa’s top leaders of working to silence critics of a plan that will slash the liberal arts. Administrators say the restructuring move is about survival. (PREMIUM)
The agency’s denial of recognition to a new nursing accreditor has left some higher-education experts confused and concerned about a possible new interpretation of existing regulations. (PREMIUM)
A paper drawing on survey responses from some 20,000 college graduates seeks to extend the discussion of college returns to include intellectual, civic, and psychological outcomes. (PREMIUM)
Without Chinese co-authors, the number of scholarly articles published by American researchers in science and engineering would have declined, a new study finds. And other top news in global higher education.
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