Chronicle of Higher Education

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Efforts to revise rules that govern the ethics of biomedical and behavioral human-subjects research appear stalled, perhaps by a divided mission.

Other key factors include the cost, as well as students' ignorance of programs that can help pay the expenses.

Net tuition revenue made up 47 percent of public colleges' educational costs in 2012, an increase of six percentage points in one year, a report says.

The program, one of several featured at a panel discussion, has brought more minority men into the university system and improved their success rates.

The College Park campus's University Senate will consider a report that calls for giving those instructors more pay, security, and clout.

A campaign that began at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pressing for changes nationwide, just as Congress has passed the first major campus-security legislation in years.

The Center for Open Science, which has attracted a wave of foundation grants, aims to "rejigger" the incentives that drive researchers.

The percentages of black, Asian, and Hispanic provosts all declined from 2008 to 2013, a troubling pattern since many provosts later become presidents.

At a British Council event in Dubai, participants seemed largely unbothered by recent moves by the U.A.E. to restrict foreign universities' activities.

UVa's president, Teresa Sullivan, accused board leaders of "micromanagement" in a recent e-mail. Now she says too much is being made of such clashes.

The association's forthcoming study of the college was bankrolled by a businessman who differs with Bowdoin's president. Their dispute began on a golf course.

Unheard of in years past, formal introductory programs for part-timers are becoming more common.

The university's next leader will be Robert J. Sternberg, provost at Oklahoma State University. Read about that and other job-related news.

Shirley M. Collado, of Middlebury College, is one of the leaders of an effort to persuade certain doctoral students to consider teaching at small, rural colleges.

Changes in ventilation systems have added up to big savings at campuses in Arizona and California.

The tribe examined by an anthropologist at NYU works in plain sight in Manhattan, with lingo, rules, and customs all its own.

The Oral History Association's first-ever executive director, Clifford M. Kuhn, must lead it through the rocky terrain of legal challenges and digital advances.

Students go to college partly to land jobs. But are graduates ready for them? The Chronicle and Marketplace asked employers if colleges meet their needs.