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8 mars 2015

Diversity Declined at Medical Schools Barred From Considering Applicants’ Race

By Chronicle Staff. Report: “Racial Diversity in the Medical Profession: The Impact of Affirmative Action Bans on Underrepresented Student of Color Matriculation in Medical Schools”
Authors: Liliana M. Garces, assistant professor of higher education at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, and David Mickey-Pabello, doctoral student in sociology at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Summary: The study, published in the March/April issue of The Journal of Higher Education, attempts to gauge how medical schools’ enrollments have been affected by bans on race-conscious admissions. More...

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8 mars 2015

Free iPads, With a Catch: They’ll Squeal if You Cut Class

By Steve Kolowich. The university is planning to try out a new app, called Class120, to “ping” its students’ iPads during class periods. If GPS or the campus wi-fi network indicates that someone’s device is not present, the app will send the student an automated reminder, and may notify his or her academic coach as well. More...

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8 mars 2015

Southern New Hampshire President to Advise Education Dept. on Competency-Based Learning

By Casey Fabris. Mr. LeBlanc will be involved with the department’s innovation agenda, specifically its experiments with competency-based education and with establishing new accreditation methods for innovative programs. More...

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8 mars 2015

New Social Network Is All College, All the Time

By Casey Fabris. Once upon a time, Facebook was reserved for college students only. A new social network is trying to reboot that idea, with a college-only service called Friendsy.
The service is the creation of two Princeton University undergraduates, Michael Pinsky and Vaidhy Murti, who hope to help facilitate connections among college students who might otherwise never meet. More...

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8 mars 2015

The Unintended Consequences of Borrowing Business Tools to Run a University

By Mark Burstein. As colleges and universities compete more vigorously than ever to attract applicants from a smaller population of high-school seniors and strive to provide a deeper, more compelling education, many of us in academic leadership have looked to business practices and concepts to manage our institutions. We have created marketing plans, sought advice from management consultants, and developed metrics and strategic plans. More...

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8 mars 2015

Why Terrorism Works

By Bruce Hoffman. Does terrorism work? Its targets and victims steadfastly maintain that it does not, while its practitioners and apologists claim that it does. Scholars and analysts are divided. Given the untold death and destruction wrought by terrorists throughout history, the question has an undeniable relevance that has only intensified since the September 11 attacks. Yet a definitive answer unaccountably remains as elusive as a universally accepted definition of terrorism itself. More...

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8 mars 2015

Houellebecq Skewers French Academe

By Robert Zaretsky. For several years, Michel Houellebecq has been France’s most celebrated writer and also its most controversial. But the infamy sparked by his earlier novels like Whatever, Elementary Particles, and Platform, evaporates under the klieg lights trained on his most recent work, Soumission. It has topped French best-seller lists since its publication in early January—the same week as the terrorist attacks in Paris, when a caricature of Houellebecq was featured on the cover of Charlie Hebdo. More than a literary sensation, Soumission has become a historical event.
Houellebecq, then, needs no introduction—except in French universities. There, professors of contemporary literature have, for the most part, ignored the chain-smoking, wild-haired, and bleary-eyed novelist. More...

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8 mars 2015

Sweet Briar’s Sudden Closure Plans Leave Students and Employees Scrambling

By Peter Schmidt. As alumnae of Sweet Briar College rallied on Wednesday around desperate efforts to save it from sudden closure, its students and faculty and staff members found themselves having to come up with new plans for their lives.
When the small women’s college closes for financial reasons, at the end of the current academic year, not only will its roughly 300 employees lose their jobs. More...

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8 mars 2015

Talk of 'De-Tenure' Triggers Faculty Ire in Tennessee

By Peter Schmidt. The University of Tennessee’s Board of Trustees has triggered suspicion among faculty members by calling for tenure policies to be reconsidered as part of a cost-cutting plan.
The system’s administration on Monday retracted from its summary of the plan language that had especially aroused faculty opposition—a reference to the potential "enacting of a de-tenure process." More...

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8 mars 2015

Adult education the loser in a game only young, full-time students win

By Peter Scott. Part-time student numbers have collapsed as older, less privileged learners become victims of university commercialisation. Universities sometimes seem to have few political friends — unlike their debt-laden students. It is not hard to tell why. It is not only that individuals have the vote and institutions don’t. At times university leaders give the impression that all they care about is hanging on to the extra cash that higher fees have generated, even if this means their graduates face a lifetime of debt and the government has to pick up the bill for those who never repay their loans in full (and other public services have to suffer even greater cuts as a result). More...

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