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16 mars 2014

What Matters to Academic-Library Directors? Information Literacy

By Jennifer Howard. Whether they work at a big research university, a small four-year college, or something in between, academic-library directors share a “resounding dedication” to teaching information literacy to undergraduates. Beyond that, the priorities they set for their libraries depend on the size and nature of their institutions and how many (or few) resources they have to work with. Those findings come out of a 2013 survey of American library directors, released on Tuesday by Ithaka S+R US. That’s the consulting and research arm of the nonprofit Ithaka group, which works on “transformative uses of new technologies in higher education.” More...

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16 mars 2014

National Archives Will Shutter 3 Facilities

By Lawrence Biemiller. The National Archives and Records Administration said on Tuesday that it would close three of its facilities—in Anchorage, Fort Worth, and Philadelphia—to save $1.3-million a year. Records stored at the Anchorage facility will be moved to a facility in Seattle and will be digitized so they remain available to users in Alaska, said David S. Ferriero, archivist of the United States, in a written statement. More...

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16 mars 2014

This Guy Drew a Cat. You Won’t Believe What Happened 4 Centuries Later.

By Steve Kolowich. Franz Helm’s illustrated manual on pyrotechnic weapons was around for more than four centuries before it went viral. When the German artillery expert wrote the manual, in the mid-1500s, he unwittingly created a piece of media ideally suited to the tastes of 21st-century Internet culture: Cats that appeared to be wearing jet packs. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

Harvard U. Students Are Silenced During MOOC Filming

By Steve Kolowich. An English professor at Harvard University turned heads last month when she instructed students in her poetry class to refrain from asking questions during lectures so as not to disrupt recordings being made for the MOOC version of the course. Elisa New, a professor of American literature, instituted the policy at the behest of technicians from HarvardX, the university’s online arm, according to The Harvard Crimson, which first reported the news. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

There May Be Fewer Online Programs Than You Think

By Lawrence Biemiller. A new report on online education finds “noise in the data” that institutions send to the U.S. Department of Education about their offerings. While 3,311 institutions say they have online programs, the report says, the actual number is more like 1,243—in part because the definition of “online” is “overly ambiguous and broad,” and in part because an institution that has multiple campuses can count each as having online programs, even if the institution in fact has only a single online offering available to all its students. More...

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16 mars 2014

A Science Student Talks Her Way Onto the Model UN Team

By Beckie Supiano. As a ninth grader in her native Ethiopia, Yemi Melka had to choose between studying science and social science. Now, on a college campus in Minnesota, she has found a way to combine her interests in chemistry and international relations, including through Model UN. Read more...

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16 mars 2014

Mailbag: We Answer Critiques of Our Graphic on Public Higher Education

By Jonah Newman. Two weeks ago The Chronicle published a special report on the forces that have led to the gradual decline in support for public higher education over the past three decades. Two reporters, Karin Fischer and Jack Stripling, explored the trend through the eyes of six people who have played parts in that change. This accompanying graphic shows the change in the share of higher-education costs carried by states versus students in all 50 states since the late 1980s. More...

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16 mars 2014

Video: College Presidents Talk Leadership at ACE’s Annual Meeting

By Nick DeSantis. Nine college presidents sat down with Chronicle reporters here at the American Council on Education’s annual meeting to talk about leadership.
Sharing their experiences were Thomas R. Rochon of Ithaca College, John Bassett of Heritage University, Horace Mitchell of California State University at Bakersfield, John R. Kroger of Reed College, Earl H. Potter of St. Cloud State University, Diana S. Natalicio of the University of Texas at El Paso, Teresa A. Sullivan of the University of Virginia, Mary Sue Coleman of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and Ricardo Azziz of Georgia Regents University. More...

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16 mars 2014

Who Knew? Arts Education Fuels the Economy

By Sunil Iyengar and Ayanna Hudson. In public-policy battles over arts education, you might hear that it is closely linked to greater academic achievement, social and civic engagement, and even job success later in life. But what about the economic value of an arts education? Here even the field’s most eloquent champions have been at a loss for words, or rather numbers.

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16 mars 2014

The Technologists' Siren Song

By W. Patrick McCray. In July 1969—less than two weeks after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin cavorted on the moon—The New York Review of Books published a controversial essay by John McDermott, "Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals." In it, McDermott, a social scientist at the State University of New York, offered a sharp rejoinder to those who viewed the Apollo 11 mission as a harbinger of ever-more-ambitious technological triumphs. The essay was in response to a report put out by Harvard University’s Program on Technology and Society, a grand interdisciplinary effort bankrolled to the tune of several million dollars by IBM. The Harvard report was sanguine, arguing, in McDermott’s words, that "technological innovation exhibits a distinct tendency to work for the general welfare in the long run."McDermott was having none of this "extravagant optimism." More...

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