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Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: More Doctors of Philosophy (and Science) The number of Ph.D.'s awarded goes up, but most of the increase is among foreign-born researchers. (tags: academia US education) Confessions of a Community College Dean: Access and…
Idle Question of the Day "Exactly what bad consequences would follow if laws were passed by the relevant countries rendering credit default swap contracts void henceforth? (That is, canceling all the outstanding wagers because the bookies went bust.) " (tags: blogs politics economics social-…
Op-Ed Contributor - Bring Back Basketball's Little Big Men - NYTimes.com "[I]f the N.C.A.A. truly cared about improving colleges instead of settling for the extra year before eligibility that Stern is talking about, it should use its considerable influence to demand that both the N.B.A. and N.F.L…
Confessions of a Community College Dean: False Economies "[S]elf-defeating efforts at cost control" See also "deferred maintenance." (tags: academia economics stupid politics) Maths plus 'geeky' images equals deterred students This week, in the Journal of Unsurprising Results. (tags: math…