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Managing Risk in College Athletics
Randall Enos for The Chronicle
As we near the end of fall, athletics programs on many campuses are focused on one primary statistic: football rankings. Yet, behind the scenes, other athletics statistics are playing out. In a recent five-year evaluation of claims, we at United Educators, which insures more than 1,200 educational institutions across the country, learned that 14 percent of our student-injury claims are a...
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Mr. Wilson's University
President Wilson was Princeton's President Wilson first. What would he make of the place today? asks W. Barksdale Maynard.
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The People's Postal Service
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The People's Postal Service
Britain's 19th-century social-networking media; and how the Nazis commandeered a condom empire. By Kacie Glenn.
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News From Far Away
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Nota Bene: Marauders on the High Seas
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The Berkeley Protest: Fresh Anger in the Footsteps
The Berkeley students who protested the big tuition increase at the University of California impressed Murray Sperber, who was in their shoes 45 years ago.
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A Fine Legal Mess: When Student Groups Collide With Anti-Bias Policy
Can a college compel a student group to abide by antidiscrimination rules when its religious views and values dictate otherwise? The U.S. Supreme Court isn't saying, writes...
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Teaching Matters: Creating Lives in the Classroom
Online avatars bring German history to life for students at Stanford. Edith Sheffer explains.
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Doha: the Davos of Higher Education?
Garrick Utley writes that if Doha, Qatar, hopes to be for colleges what Davos, Switzerland, is for economics, the Internet connection may need to improve.
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Too 'Old School' for Our Own Good?
Colleges should be savvier than newspapers about the digital revolution, says Thomas Kunkel, a newspaperman-turned-college-president.
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The Chinese Are Coming, and They Need Help With the Admissions Process
Misconceptions are rampant among Chinese families who want their children to attend U.S. institutions, Bruce G. Hammond writes.
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Student-Survey Results: Too Useful to Keep Private
It's time for higher education to adopt customer-performance measures, writes Robert D. Atkinson.
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