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| Topic | Date | News Source | Article Headline |
| Affordability | 11/7/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Student Aid is Up, But the Rise in College Costs Outpaces Family Incomes |
| Faculty Compensation | 11/7/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Pennsylvania Puts Renewed Focus on High Costs of Public Colleges |
| Affordability | 11/7/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Tuition Cut, Anyone? |
| Academic Freedom | 11/7/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Ohio State Gets Jump on Doctoral Evaluations |
| Affordability | 11/7/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | College Too Pricey? Don't Blame Faculty Pay |
| Affordability | 11/7/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Tuition and Fees, 2008-9 |
| Faculty Compensation | 11/5/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Female Professors at U of Texas-Austin Earn $9,000 Less than Male Peers |
| Affirmative Action | 11/5/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Ban on Preferences Succeeds in Nebraska; Colorado Measure Remains Undecided |
| Election 2008 | 11/5/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Obama's Possible Candidates for Education Secretary |
| Election 2008 | 11/5/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Results of State Referenda Related to Higher Education |
| Academic Freedom | 10/31/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Professors' Politics Don't Dominate the Classroom |
| Freedom of Speech | 10/27/2008 | Inside Higher Education | Backing Expression Over Suppression |
| Adjuncts | 10/24/2008 | Inside Higher Education | Do as I Say, Not as I Do |
| Diversity | 10/24/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Minority Report |
| Tenure | 10/24/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Want Tenure? Sign on the Dotted Line ... |
| Adjuncts | 10/24/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Don't Be Kind to Adjuncts |
| Tenure | 10/17/2008 | Inside Higher Education | Arrivederci, Tenure |
| Collective Bargaining | 10/15/2008 | Inside Higher Education | In Search of Self-Governance, Unionization? |
| Adjuncts | 10/14/2008 | Inside Higher Education | Call to Arms for Adjuncts ... From an Administrator |
| Compensation | 10/10/2008 | Inside Higher Education | Debating the Merits of Merit Pay |
| Tenure | 10/3/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | A Faustian Bargain for Academic Freedom |
| Academic Freedom | 10/3/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Professor Says Views on Israel Kept Her from Tenure at Ithaca |
| Academic Freedom | 10/3/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Adjuncts Fight Back Over Academic Freedom |
| Accountability | 9/29/2008 | Inside Higher Education | The Competition to Be Transparent |
| U of Michigan | 9/26/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | A Michigan Faculty Group Plays Role of Watchdog |
| Diversity | 9/26/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Whatever Happened to All Those Plans to hire More Minority Professors? |
| Freedom of Speech | 9/24/2008 | Inside Higher Education | Beware the Button Police |
| Freedom of Speech | 9/23/2008 | Inside Higher Education | Freedom From the Press? |
| Adrian College | 9/19/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Athletics Raises a College From the Ground Up |
| Higher Ed Policy | 9/12/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | An Education on Higher Education for the Next President |
| AAUP | 9/12/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | U of Arizona Scholar of Higher Education Will Lead Professors' Association |
| Faculty Contracts | 9/12/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | If Kent State Beats Goals, Professors Will Profit |
| Diversity | 9/10/2008 | Inside Higher Education | Evidence for Educational Value of Diversity |
| Oakland U | 9/9/2008 | Inside Higher Education | Don’t Think of Dropping In on Your President |
| Accountability | 9/5/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Congress Shows Colleges They're Not Off the Hook |
| Research Funding | 9/5/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Survey of Top Research Universities Shows Downturn in Federal Spending |
| Academic Freedom | 9/5/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Just Say 'A': Colleges Put Grade Inflation to the Test |
| Academic Freedom | 8/1/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | When It Comes to Free Speech, Is a Professor Just Another Government Employee? |
| Appropriations | 7/30/2008 | Inside Higher Education | The State Higher Ed Picture, 2007 |
| Affirmative Action | 7/29/2008 | Inside Higher Education | McCain Comes out Against Affirmative Action |
| Intellectual Diversity | 7/25/2008 | Inside Higher Education | Defining Political Correctness and Its Non-Impact |
| Tenure | 7/25/2008 | Inside Higher Education | Baylor Fires Its President |
| U of Michigan | 7/18/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Administrators at U of Michigan Aim to Lead by Following |
| Appropriations | 7/4/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | State Budgets Weaken, and May Get Worse |
| Spellings Commission | 6/27/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Colleges Should Go Beyond the Rhetoric of Accountability |
| Impact of Teaching | 6/20/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | The Healing Power of a Class |
| Diversity | 6/20/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Bakke Sets New a Path to Diversity for Colleges |
| Academic Freedom | 6/13/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Cal State-Fullerton Rehires Lecturer After Compromising on State Loyalty Oath |
| Admissions | 6/6/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | New Twists Mark the Debate Over Texas' Top 10-Percent Plan |
| Tenure | 6/6/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Closely Watched Tenure Case at Columbia U. is Still Unsettled |
| Affordability | 5/30/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Wealthy Colleges Must Make Themselves More Affordable |
| Costs | 5/9/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Tuition Rises as Spending on Instruction Slows |
| Academic Freedom | 4/25/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Does Academic Freedom Give Professors the Final Say in Grades? |
| Labor Law | 4/25/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Federal Judge Rules Against Faculty Union on Refunds of Nonmembers' Dues |
| Corporatization | 4/4/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | "How the University Works": Required Reading for the Future |
| Student Aid | 4/4/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | The Changing Face of Student Aid |
| Administration | 3/28/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | How to Manage the Picking of a President |
| Administrator Salaries | 3/28/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Median Salaries of Midlevel Administrators, 2007-08 |
| Students | 3/28/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Colleges Confront Predicted Shifts in Student Population |
| Appropriations | 3/7/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Florida's Colleges Gird for Deep Budget Cuts |
| Labor Law | 2/29/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Maryland Bills Would Hand Labor Rights to TA's, Adjuncts |
| Higher Ed Growth | 2/13/2008 | Michigan Daily | The Lonely Flagship |
| Affirmative Action | 1/18/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Scholars Mount Sweeping Effort to Measure Effects of Affirmative Action in Higher Education |
| Appropriations | 1/11/2008 | Chronicle of Higher Education | State Appropriations for Higher Education See Biggest Jump in Decades |
| Costs | 11/2/2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education | 2007-2008 Tuition and Fees |
| Affirmative Action | 10/17/2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education | 5 More States May Curtail Affirmative Action |
| Academic Bill of Rights | 9/21/2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education | The Intellectual Responsibility of Educators |
| Academic Bill of Rights | 9/21/2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education | AAUP Goes to Bat for 'Freedom in the Classroom' |
| Diversity | 6/15/2007 | Inside Higher Education | A Way to Keep Domestic Partner Benefits |
| AAUP | 6/8/2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Five AAUP Members |
| AAUP | 6/8/2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education | The AAUP, 92 and Ailing |
| Survey of Trustees | 5/11/2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education | The Chronicle Survey of Trustees of 4-Year Colleges |
| Survey of Trustees | 5/11/2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education | A Chronicle Survey: What Trustees Think |
| Affirmative Action | 5/4/2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education | 4 States Named as New Targets in Affirmative-Action Fight |
| Administrator Salaries | 3/30/2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Median Salaries of Midlevel Administrators, 2006-07 |
| University Research Corridor | 3/30/2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Michigan's Smaller Public Universities Unite to Fight Its Big 3 |
| College Readiness | 1/12/2007 | Chronicle of Higher Education | States Have a Powerful Influence on a Student's Educational Fate, Report Says |
| Appropriations | 12/15/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | State Appropriations Table |
| Contingent Faculty | 12/15/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Tracking the Invisible Faculty |
| Appropriations | 12/15/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | State Funds for Colleges Continue to Rebound |
| Appropriations | 12/8/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Panel Urges State Lawmakers to Take the Lead in Higher-Education Reform |
| Spellings Commission | 11/24/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Spellings Wants to Use Accreditation as a Cudgel |
| Election | 11/17/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | 2006 Election Referendum Results |
| Affirmative Action | 11/17/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Michigan Overwhelmingly Adopts Ban on Affirmative-Action Preferences |
| Academic Bill of Rights | 11/10/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | After the Academic Bill of Rights |
| Corporatization | 10/27/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Why Colleges Should Avoid Abrupt Terminations |
| Affirmative Action | 10/27/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | A Referendum on Race Preferences Divides Michigan |
| Spellings Commission | 10/6/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Spellings Lays Out 'Action Plan' for Colleges |
| Governance | 9/29/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | College Presidents and Governing Boards Must Strengthen Bonds, Report Says |
| Tenure | 9/29/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Women See Less Clarity in Tenure Requirements Than Do Men |
| Economic Development | 9/15/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Regions and Universities Together Can Foster a Creative Economy |
| Spellings Commission | 9/1/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Q&A: David Ward Explains Why He Didn't Sign Commission's Report |
| Spellings Commission | 9/1/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Commission Calls Colleges 'Self-Satisfied' and 'Risk Averse' |
| Spellings Commission | 9/1/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Lengthy Fights Are Expected Over Measures on Accountability |
| Spellings Commission | 9/1/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Controversial Proposal on Accreditation Fails to Make Panel's Final Report |
| Spellings Commission | 9/1/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Plenty of Ideas About Student Aid, but No Road Map |
| Spellings Commission | 9/1/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Preamble to the Final Draft Report of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education |
| Spellings Commission | 9/1/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Uncertainty Greets Report on Colleges by U.S. Panel |
| Tenure | 7/21/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Just Half of Professors Earn Tenure in 7 Years, Penn State Study Finds |
| Tenure | 7/21/2006 | Chronicle of Higher Education | Off the Clock - U-M May Give Professors More Time to Earn Tenure |
| Appropriations | 5/24/2006 | Detroit News | Graduate to Smarter University Funding |
| Governance | 11/1/2005 | Academe | Who Needs a Faculty Senate? |
