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1 avril 2016

The end of research in Wisconsin

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. This past June, American academia went into an uproar over Gov. Scott Walker’s new budget in Wisconsin, which not only cut $250M from higher education, but also severely weakened shared faculty governance and effectively destroyed professor tenure at state universities. More...

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1 avril 2016

Mentorship, promotion among challenges of keeping black faculty

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Black faculty employment at MU is like a revolving door.
"We hire them and we lose them at the same pace that we hire them". More...

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1 avril 2016

How they became the first in their families to go to college

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Yvette and Stephanie are both in their first year at colleges in Portland, Oregon. They're thrilled. More...

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1 avril 2016

Sophisticated test scams from China invade U.S. college admissions

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. In the fall of 2013, Yue Zou decided that she wanted to leave Hegang, the city where she lived in the Heilongjiang province of China, and attend college in the United States. More...

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1 avril 2016

Digital archive of LGBTQ history available for academic institutions

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Gale, a leading provider of library resources and part of Cengage Learning, has released the first part of Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity, a milestone digital program that brings together the largest collection of primary source content on gender, sexuality and identity. More...

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1 avril 2016

A community resource on financial planning

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. In 2009, when Prince George’s Community College (PGCC) in Maryland launched its Community Financial Center, the nation was in the middle of a mortgage crisis. More...

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1 avril 2016

Surprising students with hand-delivered acceptance letters

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Signed, sealed and hand-delivered.
It's the new method of Wheaton College admissions. Instead of making accepted students wait for the "You're in!" email, or agonize over what a small envelope could mean in the digital age, the Massachusetts liberal arts college is resurrecting a messaging system that predates even snail mail: face-to-face communication. More...

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1 avril 2016

Managing the mobile security load

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. IT administrators for universities have to deal with students and faculty armed with personal fleets of connected devices that add to the security load, along with new "flilpped classroom" teaching methods that rely on streaming video. More...

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1 avril 2016

OU commits to increasing focus on civic engagement

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Oakland University, in partnership with Campus Compact and more than 350 presidents and chancellors from across higher education, has pledged to increase its focus on civic engagement for the benefit of students and communities. More...

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31 mars 2016

ODU entrepreneurial expo shows off student-run companies

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Blade Taylor admits sometimes it’s hard for him to concentrate in classes.
He’s got 3D printing, vinyl decals and profit margins on the brain. More...

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