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• Thinking of a Humanities PhD? Don't Do It! - Rebecca Schuman, Slate
• Will Online Courses Rescue Higher Education? - Nicholas Carr, Tech Rev.
• Stop Your Hype, Thomas Friedman - Massimo Pigliucci, Rationally Speaking
• The College Education Revolution - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
• Inverting the Science Ph.D. Pyramid Scheme - Jon Bardin, Chronicle HE
• Career Lies My Grad School Told Me - Steven Malanga, RealClearMarkets
• Faculty Retention Major Problem for Universities - Rensselaer Polytech.
• The Bankruptcy of Higher Education - Kevin Carey, Chronicle of Higher Ed
• Is Our College Students Learning? - Jonathan Zimmerman, LA Times
• Why I Loved the Hated Professor V - Enrico Uva, Science 2.0
• College Football Wins Lower Guys' GPA - Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune
• Why Science Majors Change Their Mind - Christopher Drew, NY Times
• Americans Win Int'l Student Biotech Competition - Ingrid Swanson Pultz
• Is Left-Leaning Social Science Useful For Anything? - Razib Khan, Discover
• Rising Value of a Science Degree - Motoko Rich, New York Times
• Report: Poor Safety Record in College Labs - Vergano & Korte, USA Today
• US-Trained Scientists Go Back to Germany - Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed
• 22 Fascinating, Bizarre College Courses - Stacy Conradt, Mental Floss
• Don't Waste Money on SAT, ACT Prep Courses - Alec Campbell
• Is 'Self of Steam' Destroying Education? - Marc Cyr, Chronicle of Higher Ed.
• 25 Most Awesome College Science Laboratories - Popular Science
• A Comedic Look At the Life of a Grad Student - Nidhi Subbaraman, MSNBC
• Sudan Splits, Science Divides - L. Nordling & D. Ndhlovu, Nature News
• Are We Inflating a College Education Bubble? - Daniel Indiviglio, Atlantic
• Interactive Textbooks: The Future of Education? - Yun Xie, Ars Technica
• Professors Need to Focus on Teaching - Naomi Riley, Los Angeles Times
• Earning College Degree is Way Too Easy - Richard Arum, Los Angeles Times
• Is Our Scientists Learning to Write? - Jonathan Gitlin, Ars Technica
• College? There's an App for That - Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
• Improving the Science of Teaching Science - Benedict Carey, NY Times
• Are Bachelor's Degrees Worth Anything? - James Bradshaw, Globe and Mail
• Biomedical Rankings: World's Top 100 Schools - Ami Sedghi, Guardian
• Video Games: A Scholarly Pursuit - Ben Wieder, Chronicle of Higher Ed.
• Education's Ph.D. Factory: Time to Stop? - David Cyranoski et al., Nature
• Instructors Can Reduce Cheating By Being Clear - University of Missouri
• Anti-College Backlash: Maybe It's Just Not Worth It - The Atlantic
• Problems with College Rankings - Ellen Hazelkorn, Chronicle of Higher Ed.
• Too Many Chemistry Ph.D.'s? - Bethany Halford, Chem. & Engineering News
• Tunisian Scientists Rejoice at Freedom - Declan Butler, Nature News
• Software Detects Plagiarism - Eric Hoover, Chronicle of Higher Education
• Statistics of Narcissism, Grad School Rankings - Jordan Ellenberg, Slate
• University Mergers in Europe - Aisha Labi, Chronicle of Higher Education
• Don't Do It: Ph.D.'s Are Often a Waste of Time - The Economist
• How U.S. Universities Can Stay On Top - Jeffrey Mervis, Science Insider
• Universities Fail to Teach Basic Research Skills - University of Washington