Discusses the Patriot League, whose idea was to emphasize academics and offer no sports scholarships. Examines why modifications, especially to the no-scholarship rule, have been embraced by some member schools. (EV)

Explores how, when a nutrition professor took credit for a graduate student's research, the student sued; Cornell says the professor did nothing wrong. (EV)

Describes how City Colleges of Chicago is restructuring its work force by outsourcing tasks formerly done by counselors and information-technology employees. (EV)

Explores how many professors who moonlight for unaccredited Kennedy-Western University are proud to do so, but not all. (EV)

Describes how a growing number of colleges are using on-site "instant" admissions programs to let applicants know in person whether they have been accepted. (EV)

Describes Ohio Wesleyan and Duke universities' new guidelines for an age-old problem: sexual relationships between instructors and students. (EV)

Discusses how a 1998 law has denied federal financial aid to so many students convicted of past drug offenses that even its author wants to change it. (EV)

Discusses how Steven B. Sample, president of the University of Southern California, has taken the institution to a new level, as he describes in his best-selling book. (EV)

Explores how, strapped for resources, predominantly African-American institutions offer few online resources; some also continue the tradition of concerning themselves more with the quality of face-to-face instruction. (EV)

Discusses a study by the American Association of University Professors that found that faculty salaries this year have risen at the highest rate in 11 years (3.8 percent) but predicts that the recession will lead to a decline. Includes several data tables, including a listing of faculty salaries at more than 1,400 institutions. (EV)

Describes how lawmakers in cash-strapped states--including California, Wisconsin, and Tennessee--are forcing public colleges into hiring freezes, tuition increases, and even cuts in research designed to spur economic development. (EV)

Discusses how for-profit colleges are adapting to the decline in the high-technology job market by offering programs to train "old economy" workers in skilled trades. (EV)

Discusses the difficult choices facing campus officials as Microsoft pressures colleges to sign lease agreements for desktop software rather than continue to buy licenses; the new leasing option saves money in the short term but might limit choices later. (EV)

Using the case of Tony Cole at the University of Georgia, explores how colleges are struggling with a variety of problems that arise when athletes are accused of crimes or have criminal pasts. (EV)

Describes how, in order to survive, Mitchell College in Connecticut adopted a contract system for all new and tenure-track professors. (EV)