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2 mars 2014

Father Guido Was Right

By Rob Weir. I’m having a great semester, but I’m thinking about midcourse adjustments. Experience tells me there will be lulls at some point. I don’t take it personally — each group has different needs, questions, and interests; something that soared last fall might crash in the spring. One of the healthiest things professors can do is shake up the routine at mid-semester to add new dimensions to the class, address things that aren’t going well, and reinforce those that are. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

A Simpler IP Process

By Ry Rivard. In an attempt to make it easier for researchers to commercialize their work, officials at Cornell University’s New York City campus are reconsidering how they make money off intellectual property. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

Risk Management

By Carl Straumsheim. The U.S. Education Department needs to do more to ensure the billions of dollars it offers in financial aid aren’t wasted on students who fraudulently enroll in distance education programs, the department's Office of Inspector General has concluded in a critical new report. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

A Call to Embrace Silos

By Scott Jaschik. Everyone, it seems, wants to promote interdisciplinary work. College and university presidents love to announce new interdisciplinary centers. Funders want to support such work. Many professors and graduate students bemoan the way higher ed places them in silos from which they long to free themselves, if only they could get tenure for interdisciplinary work.
Jerry A. Jacobs, a professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, wants to end the interdisciplinary love fest. His new book, In Defense of Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in the Research University (University of Chicago Press), challenges the conventional wisdom that academe needs to get out of disciplines to solve the most important problems and to encourage creative thinking. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

Ready or Not

By Allie Grasgreen. If provosts could grade themselves on how well they’re preparing students for success in the work force, they’d give themselves an A+. They did, sort of, in Inside Higher Ed's 2014 survey of chief academic officers. Ninety-six percent said they were doing a good job – but they may have been grading on a curve. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

Rainforest U.

By Donna Bowater for Times Higher Education. Across the river from the congested metropolis of Manaus, nothing but dense green forest lines the banks of the Negro river in the Brazilian Amazon. Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazonas and host city to England’s opening match against Italy in the forthcoming FIFA World Cup, is an urban oasis surrounded by more than 5 million sq km of rainforest, the largest expanse of jungle in the world. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

The Tax Bill Cometh

By Doug Lederman. Tax legislation introduced Wednesday by Republican leaders in the House of Representatives doesn't have a snowball's chance in Miami of becoming law. But that does not mean that its many provisions related to higher education -- many of which would negatively affect colleges and universities -- don't matter. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

Who Should Teach Ethnic Studies?

By Colleen Flaherty. Part ideological debate and part departmental turf war, a multiple-week conflict at California State University at Los Angeles has ended in the following resolution: Students will be required to take one course on race or ethnicity but they need not find that course in an ethnic studies department. The Academic Senate decision followed at-times-heated discussions among faculty and student protesters about just what diversity is and who should be teaching about it. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

CFPB vs. ITT

By Michael Stratford. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against ITT Educational Services, accusing the large for-profit higher education company of engaging in predatory lending and other abusive practices. The bureau’s lawsuit marks its first enforcement action against a for-profit college and is an indication, some observers said, of how seriously and aggressively the watchdog agency -- which officially turns three years old this July -- plans to use its enforcement powers in this contentious, politically charged sector of higher education. Read more...

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2 mars 2014

Rejected at Common App

By Scott Jaschik. The Common Application announced Wednesday that Rob Killion had stepped down -- at the board's request -- as executive director of the organization. The 10 years that Killion led the organization were a period of tremendous growth for the Common App, which now has 517 colleges as participants, more than double the 255 institutions that were members when he started. Read more...

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