Security Researchers Drop Scientific Censorship Case
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) drops its case defending Professor Edward Felten - a researcher forced to withdraw a paper showing how music files could be decrypted - against the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Felton and the EFF had lost a preliminary judgement in a New Jersey court. More...
Quebec’s new UNESCO chair on the prevention of radicalisation and violent extremism is the first of its kind in the world, say members of three universities who launched the project recently in Sherbrooke, reports The Canadian Press. More...
With the goal of significantly increasing the number of graduates by the year 2025, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities has launched an unprecedented nationwide collaborative effort, writes Lois Elfman for Diverse. More...
The number of Indian students enrolling for graduate-level programmes in computer science and engineering in the United States declined by 21%, or 18,590, in 2017 compared to the previous year, according to a recent report by the National Foundation for American Policy, a Virginia-based non-profit public policy research organisation. The report is based on data from the US Department of Homeland Security, writes Sushma U N for Quartz. More...
By Dan Bauman, The Chronicle of Higher Education. As Americans and their policy-makers focus on Russian interference in the 2016 election and broader efforts to stoke discord in American society, China’s relationship with the nation’s colleges and universities is drawing renewed attention as well. More...The media today: ‘This doesn’t look like the gun debate in America’
Jon Allsop, Columbia Journalism Review, 2018/02/22
The students are the stars in this article describing how jorunalists from The Eagle Eye covered the event in their school as it was happening and have taken the lead in ensuring that the story does not follow the usual 'thoughts and prayers'-'too early for the debate' news cycle following a major shooting. More...
Don't call it a snow day: Schools closed, but Leyden students participate in 'e-learning day' from home
Heather Cherone, Chicago Tribune, 2018/02/12
The snow last week in the U.S. Midwest has allowed some Chicagi-area schools to test their "e-learning day" arrangements. Leyden High School is " one of three Illinois school districts participating in a pilot program that could put an end to snow days for good." More...
By . I see from this CTV story that Federal Budget Trial Balloon Leaking Season has begun. This is the time of year when Liberals decide they would like to get applause for a decision more than once, and so they pre-announce various bits of the budget so they can have good news spread over more than just budget day. More...
As enrollments and employment levels decline at Kentucky’s public institutions of higher education, such changes translate into a personal loss for those seeking more education and a collective loss for the communities losing jobs and other economic benefits. More...
The finalized version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that President Trump signed into law poses less of a perceived threat to higher ed than the bill that passed the House. More...
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