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By Steven Salaita

Probing the limits of academic freedom. (PREMIUM)

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Finance
By Dan Bauman

Critics often ask how an institution can expect deference on matters of tuition increases, employee wages, or state funding when the same institution is sitting on a large pile of cash. Experts say that’s not how university budgeting works. (PREMIUM)

Administration
By Marc Parry

Instead of tearing down their version of Silent Sam, students at the institution tried to work with the administration. But they’re growing restless.

The Edge
By Goldie Blumenstyk

“We’re not achieving the growth that we thought we might,” said Purdue’s president, Mitch Daniels.

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International
By Karin Fischer

Arizona State is the latest university to shut down its Chinese-government-funded language and cultural center. The institutes have become increasingly controversial.

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By Kathryn R. Wedemeyer-Strombel

Getting the mental-health care that I so desperately needed was the best thing I ever did for myself as a doctoral student.

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