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10 octobre 2017

A September of Racist Incidents

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Assaults and race-related posters and graffiti afflict college campuses across the U.S., inflaming students as the academic year begins. More...

10 octobre 2017

Rutgers Escapes Relatively Unscathed

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. University receives relatively mild punishment from NCAA,  even though the former head football coach pressured faculty member to raise a player's grade and didn't act when players tested positive for drugs. More...

10 octobre 2017

Court Finds Due Process Denied in Sex Assault Case

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Federal panel blocks suspension of University of Cincinnati graduate student, saying institution did not respect his constitutional rights after he was accused of sexual assault. More...

10 octobre 2017

Sleek, New and Just for Engineering Students

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Engineering students at Arizona State University need not leave their slick new dormitory on the college’s Tempe campus for some of their classes. More...

10 octobre 2017

Black Eye for College Basketball

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Bribery and corruption charges against four coaches and high-level executives underscore -- again -- the big money and the influence of corporations in recruiting, and may be another external blow to college sports. More...

10 octobre 2017

Wheaton Gives Community Service to Players Facing Felony Charges

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Wheaton College, in Illinois, punished five football players by assigning them to write essays and complete community service for their role in a 2016 hazing episode. They also now face felony charges. More...

10 octobre 2017

The challenge of change: advice from Keynes

The challenge of change: advice from Keynes
Harvey P. Weingarten, Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, 2016/08/25
It is inevitable, I think, that proponents of 'quality' in education will call for an end to the mandate to provide access to all, instead focusing on 'higher quality' for a few. More...

10 octobre 2017

Ruling Pushes Door to Grad-Student Unions ‘Wide Open’

Ruling Pushes Door to Grad-Student Unions ‘Wide Open’
Peter Schmidt, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2016/08/25
While a graduate student association president I spent two years working to unionize graduate teaching assistants. The effort was ultimately unsuccessful. Not because of law - unionization is much easier in Canada and contributes greatly to our more equitable society. More...

10 octobre 2017

A Domain of One's Own in a Post-Ownership Society

A Domain of One's Own in a Post-Ownership Society
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2016/08/25
This article describes what is in retrospect a remarkable turn of events: in the digital world, private enterprise has realized the Marxist ideal, the elimination of private property. More...

10 octobre 2017

We Were Mostly Wrong: Looking back at 25 years on the web

We Were Mostly Wrong: Looking back at 25 years on the web
Martin Veitch, IDG Connect, 2016/08/25
My father was what they call a telephone pioneer and I guess I'm an internet pioneer. I wrote my first computer program in 1979 and was working for Texas Instruments by 1980. By 1991 I was studying for a PhD I would never get, playing in an internet multi-user dungeon (MUD), teaching critical thinking by telephone for Athabasca University, and playing with a thing called the Maximus BBS. More...

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