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CLASSROOM TO COURTROOM
A program at New Hampshire's only law school allows students to demonstrate their court skills in lieu of the bar exam. Jennifer Gibson (above), a former high-school English teacher, liked that the two-year Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program at Franklin Pierce Law Center gives students hands-on experience in what it is like to be a lawyer. (Photograph by Don Clark)
Gas Prices Afford Adjuncts Tough Choices
Part-time professors are feeling the pinch at the pump -- which could foreshadow a larger problem as academe increasingly depends on part-time labor. News Analysis: Pentagon's New Social-Science Program Stirs Old Anxieties Scholar in Controversial Army Program Dies in Baghdad Blast Colleges Should Change Policies to Encourage Public Scholarship, Report Says News Analysis: Weighing the Chilling Effects of 'Libel Tourism' Scholars Mourn a Colleague Who Lost His Life in Afghanistan Columbia U. Plans to Fire Professor Accused of Plagiarism Innovative Program Lets N.H. Law Students Bypass the Bar Exam Syllabus A Spanish altarpiece from the 15th century forms the basis for an interdisciplinary class at Southern Methodist University. Notes PEER REVIEW: The composer Jonathan L. Chenette becomes dean of the faculty at Vassar College ... Shirley Strum Kenny steps down at SUNY at Stony Brook ... Kent Kleinman is the new dean of Cornell University's architecture school.
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