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By Tom Bartlett and Karin Fischer

Dozens of new students crowded into a lobby of the University of Delaware's student center at the start of the academic year. Many were stylishly attired in distressed jeans and bright-colored sneakers; half tapped away silently on smartphones while the rest engaged in boisterous conversations. Eavesdropping on those conversations, however, would have been dif
So you’ve finished school, or are looking for a new job. Maybe you need to update your book in preparation for an upcoming interview. What do you do? What are some best practices and pitfalls to avoid when presenting your work?
By Jiang Xueqin

You may have seen him on campus. He's a Chinese student who aced his SAT's, but once enrolled as a freshman he sits quietly by himself either in the library cubicle or at the back of the class. He has only Chinese friends, and thinks sports and parties are beneath him. Day by day, he misses China, and is uninterested in America. And year by year he multiplies on American campus
#1 It's Time for Healthcare to Get Down to Business
Selfless service, a core value of Texas A&M, inspired world-renowned researcher Dr. Leonard Berry to immerse himself in the culture and systems of the Mayo Clinic, emerging with practical, business-driven solutions to help our nation's doctors and healthcare workers.
Want to go to Graduate School? Travel? Not enough money? Put it all together and you might have an answer: graduate school abroad. Sometimes I wonder if my undergraduate degree, which gave me a solid foundation in the History of Science and has led to a lucrative career in international vagabonding, is worth the $10,000 of student loans I am evading by living in Oaxaca, Mexico.

I ponder this,
The vast majority of undergraduates are in a peculiar and as yet unresolved bind. On the one hand, a college education will likely saddle them with crippling debt and consign them to four underwhelming years in classrooms with fluorescent lighting and drop-tile ceilings. On the other hand, opting out will likely consign them to a lifetime of unsatisfying, low-wage employment. What’s an average ki
Average faculty salaries rose 1.4 percent from 2009-10 to 2010-11, even though average pay decreased at 30 percent of colleges and universities, according to the annual pay report being released Monday by the American Association of University Professors. This year’s results are just slightly higher than last year’s increase of 1.2 percent, which was the smallest rise reported in the survey’s 50
At an art school in Cairo, students explore the Egyptian uprising through a once-banned medium: protest art On the sidewalk outside Cairo's Faculty of Fine Arts college on leafy Zamalek Island, just across the Nile from Tahrir Square, hijab-wearing young women are elbow-deep in paint. Absorbed in their work, they climb ladders to study the effect, all the while graciously answering questions from

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