Discusses how Johns Hopkins University Press agreed to publish a dissertation on Bryn Mawr School, a top private academy for girls--until school officials complained. (EV)

Discusses how president Lawrence H. Summers has no problem taking on Harvard's beloved programs and bringing a "back to basics" approach to the university. (EV)

Discusses how, as students enroll in record numbers, Cape Fear Community College, like many of its counterparts, is struggling to meet their needs. (EV)

Twenty-four people from all walks of college life, including a campus police officer, a scientist studying bioterrorism, and a Muslim student, tell how September 11 affected them. (EV)

Describes how many community colleges are putting administrators rather than professors at the head of academic departments. (EV)

Discusses how many college officials expect chaos when the federal government imposes its January 30 deadline for colleges to comply with Sevis, a computerized system for tracking foreign students. (EV)

Explores how public colleges are adapting to a new accounting procedure that gives many of them apparent deficits. (EV)

Discusses how a financial-aid-related rule that restricts distance education is close to being killed, but that few institutions are planning to take advantage of its demise. (EV)

Describes how, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, incoming freshmen read and discussed a book about the Koran, despite attempts by a Christian group to halt the seminars. (EV)

Describes how coaches in Pennsylvania's state-college system have formed a union for more bargaining power. (EV)

Discusses how this Arab emirate is offering millions of dollars for a few U.S. colleges to open campuses there. (EV)

Profiles an economist, a literary scholar, a bioinformatics researcher, and an expert on Islam who found good jobs in a tight academic market. (EV)

Explores what it takes to remain a college president for decades, discussing the examples of several presidents who have countered the recent trend of short presidencies. (EV)

Discusses how independent bookstores are finding that to be competitive, they have to offer their services online. (EV)

Using the example of Denver Seminary, discusses how evangelical seminaries are gaining enrollment--unlike their mainline Protestant counterparts--through aggressive recruiting as they try to stave off financial woes. (EV)