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Teaching
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By Beckie Supiano

Alternative approaches can help shift students’ attention from how they did to what they learned. (PREMIUM)

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Finance
By Katherine Mangan

They call it sad but say they needed to take the step given the state’s budget crisis.

Special Reports

How a governor’s vetoes fostered a financial crisis on the campuses of the Last Frontier.

Athletics
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By Will Jarvis

Critics say the renovated football building in Baton Rouge, La., reflects a broader problem of misplaced university priorities. (PREMIUM)

Backgrounder
By Jack Stripling

How the wooing of students, and the cultivation of their desires, shifts the priorities and the role of the modern university. (PREMIUM)

Students
By Grace Elletson

Two students at Morehouse College said last week that a staff member had sexually harassed and assaulted them. It’s the most recent in a string of sexual-misconduct cases Morehouse has been accused of mishandling.

Research
By Julian Wyllie (The Chronicle of Philanthropy)

Indiana, New York, and Yale Universities are among the 11 higher-ed and research institutions that will receive funds to explore “the most profound change to how we receive information since Gutenberg invented the printing press.”

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Views

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By David Gooblar

Many instructors have an intuitive sense of how to behave at the front of a classroom but have never really given much thought to how best to teach.

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