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22 août 2019

Dispute Over Minority Affairs, Collapse of a Student Senate

HomeBy Nick Hazelrigg. At Metropolitan State University, the Student Senate fell apart after continued internal disputes and arguments with the administration over vacant minority affairs positions. More...

22 août 2019

The Limited Role of Evidence in Ed-Tech Decisions

HomeBy Lindsay McKenzie. A research study finds many higher ed institutions are selecting expensive new ed-tech tools without strong evidence they improve student learning. More...

22 août 2019

Linking Liability

HomeBy Lindsay McKenzie. There is little dispute that Sci-Hub, the website that provides free access to millions of proprietary academic papers, is illegal. Yet, despite being successfully sued twice by major American academic publishers for massive copyright infringement, the site continues to operate. More...

22 août 2019

Priming for Amazon

HomeBy Lindsay McKenzie. Two Virginia universities announced ambitious expansions when Amazon selected its second headquarters. Nine months on, Virginia Tech has made more progress than George Mason in securing funding. More...

22 août 2019

SNHU Recognizes Salesforce Skills

HomeBy Lindsay McKenzie. Southern New Hampshire University will award college credit to students who complete Salesforce training. More...

22 août 2019

Changing Spaces

HomeBy Lindsay McKenzie. For-profit universities have for years offered in-person classes at campus locations to supplement their online curricula. But with in-person enrollments dwindling, some are rethinking the role these places play. More...

22 août 2019

Amazon Op-Ed Divides Opinions

HomeBy Lindsay McKenzie. A prominent economist wrote a favorable op-ed about the arrival of Amazon’s second headquarters in Northern Virginia but failed to disclose that the company had asked him to write it. Were his actions unethical. More...

22 août 2019

The Texas Tech K-12 Pipeline

HomeBy Lindsay McKenzie. Texas Tech University created a K-12 school more than 25 years ago, but the school’s potential as a source of future university students is just starting to be realized. More...

22 août 2019

“Big Deal” Database Launched

HomeBy Lindsay McKenzie. Details of the “big deals” struck by university libraries and academic publishers have now been published as part of the Big Deal Knowledge Base. More...

22 août 2019

California Scientists Pull Support for Elsevier Journals

HomeBy Lindsay McKenzie. Thirty academics from the University of California system have said they will no longer provide editorial services to publisher Elsevier’s highly influential Cell Press journals. More...

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