College-Basketball Experts Divided Over NBA Age Minimum
Last year the National Basketball Association established a controversial rule requiring star players to wait a year after they graduate from high school, and until age 19, to enter the professional draft...
Reopened Delaware County Community College is "Not Giving In" to E-Mail Threats
The stealth e-mailer "J Feathers" ultimately failed at holding Delaware County Community College hostage...
College Cost Crunch Felt Worldwide, Not Just in U.S.
A college cost crunch is bearing down on governments worldwide -- not just in America -- and some innovative approaches to student loans are being taken overseas, although you wouldn't know it on Capitol Hill...
Legal Watch: What's Yours is Mine?
Faculty members scan, ponder, copy, forward, debate, lecture on, and file from a myriad sources, but do we ever think about who owns all that information we are so blithely sharing...
Coming Clean on Student Loans
The goal is certainly worthy, but some of the practices of student-loan firms are anything but. For instance, how about manning a college's financial-aid hotline with employees of a lender that is vying for the callers' business...
UNC Faculty Rejects Grade Analysis
By a narrow margin, the UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Council has defeated a proposal for a comparative grade ranking that had stirred up students' opposition...
UCSD Researchers Share Prestigious Cozzarelli Prize
A paper co-authored by two UC San Diego researchers showing that reductions of air pollution could create agricultural benefits in one of the world's poorest regions was one of six awarded the Cozzarelli Paper of the Year Prize by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)...
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The Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Performance
A central characteristic of the most successful managers is that they cultivate a "Carrot Culture" in their workplace, providing employees with frequent and effective recognition...
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