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The editor reserves the right to decide which messages to post to the list and to edit them as appropriate before re-transmittal. Feel free to re-distribute this newsletter in full or in part, as long as it is not being done for profit and due credit is given. A report just released by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching claims that undergraduates are being shortchanged at US research universities. The study covered 125 institutions that award almost a third of the baccalaureate degrees. It said that undergraduates are being poorly trained, often by teaching assistants, and rarely interact with the high-powered scholars touted in recruiting materials.