Inside Higher Ed--November 20 ,2008

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2008 by Biodun Iginla, BBC News, London and Minneapolis, in Paris on assignment by Biodun Iginla, BBC News, London and Minneapolis, in Paris on assignment

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November 20, 2008
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Concerns About Clustering USA Today report finds athletes on hundreds of Division I teams are overrepresented in one major at their colleges, raising questions about whether NCAA’s academic rules are driving choices.
>;> View full article Looking to the Past to Ban Legacy Admissions For second time this year, law review articles suggest that — if you go back far enough — a legal case can be made that preferences for alumni children are illegal.
>> View full article New Model for Education Research Carnegie Foundation’s new president proposes a reform of teacher education programs.
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Complicating Notions of ‘Community’ in Education Anthropologists consider limitations of the term in educational research.
>> View full article Top Profs The 2008 U.S. Professors of the Year are being honored today by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
>> View full article Quick Takes: Athletic Oversight Found Lacking at Rutgers, College Blasted Over Use of Bond Funds, Gift Doubles Le Moyne Endowment, IPO for For-Profit College, Tenn. State Bans ‘Juicy’ Web Site, Conversation Monitors at a Canadian University
>> View full article VIEWS Diversity of Ideas: Military Education on Campus
From Iraq, Rich Morales, a Yale alum, White House fellow, and battalion commander, weighs in on the university’s debate over restoring an officer training corps to its campus.
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