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...trends.” Brenna E. McLaughlin, electronic and strategic initiatives director for the AAUP, said that nearly all university presses are experiencing a decline in sales. “It’s provided both an impetus and another obstacle to experimenting with new ways of disseminating scholarship,” she said. Both Maco and McLaughlin emphasized the importance of expanding university presses’ digital presence. Maco said she was excited to see the Press’ first online legal journal as well as the availability of HUP books on Amazon’s wireless reading device...
Colleges of all stripes are taking a battering as endowments evaporate and the alumni-donation well dries up. But when it comes to actually getting its class in the door, Skidmore, which allowed TIME to observe scholarship discussions and review admissions and financial-aid applications less than two weeks before the school mailed its final decisions, typifies the unique dilemmas that face smallish private colleges. Schools with deep pockets are coping: seven of the eight Ivy League universities, for instance, notched application increases this spring, three of them in double-digit percentages. The same goes for state schools and community...
Home to the Al Azhar mosque and university, the great centers of Islamic scholarship, Cairo has long influenced the thinking of Muslims everywhere. It is also, in many ways, the birthplace of radical Islam and of the precepts that underpin terrorist groups like al-Qaeda. (Read TIME's Middle East blog...
...surprisingly, neither expresses familiarity with the term “conflict of interest.”)In the movie’s first scene, a student passionately refuses to define his ethnicity in a classic “checkbox” dilemma. At stake is a $12,000 scholarship offered only to minority students, but Patrick (Victor Rasuk) does not identify with his Puerto Rican roots on principle. The desired effect is admiration for his idealism, but a low-income college student turning down thousands of dollars essentially because he “hasn’t even been...
...Hadith Project is only one of many such investigations into Islam's role in the 21st century. This is perhaps the most intellectually active period for the faith since the height of Islamic scholarship in the Middle Ages. "There is more self-confidence in the Islamic world about dealing with reason, constitutionalism, science and other big issues that define modern society," says Ibrahim Kalin of the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research in Ankara. "The West is no longer the only worldview to look up to. There are other ways of sharing the world and negotiating your place...