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24 mai 2015

Designing and Adapting Projects For All Users: Digital Accessibility Workshop (July 27-31)

By George Williams. Today being Global Accessibility Awareness Day, you might be interested in finding opportunities for learning more about the topic of accessibility in digital environments. If that’s the case, then you are in luck: later this summer, Erin Templeton and I will be teaching a workshop entitled Digital Accessibility: Designing and Adapting Projects For All Users at HILT (Humanities Intensive Learning & Teaching) 2015. Read more...

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24 mai 2015

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day

By George Williams. As you may (or may not) already know, today is “Global Accessibility Awareness Day.” Here at ProfHacker, we’ve written often about the importance of accessibility. Most recently — yesterday — Anastasia shared a post about making accessible games with Twine Audio. Read more...

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24 mai 2015

From the Archives: At the End of the Academic Year, Looking Back and Looking Forward

By Amy Cavender. It’s graduation season; most colleges and universities have finished for the year, or will in just a few more weeks. That provides an opportunity to take stock of the year just completed, and look to the year ahead. It’s also a good opportunity to get caught up on some of the organizing tasks that often go undone in the last frantic weeks of the academic year. Read more...

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24 mai 2015

Making Accessible Games with Twine Audio

By Anastasia Salter. I’ve written about both Twine and Twine 2 as platforms that are very friendly to completely new developers and those who haven’t previously programmed, but Twine is also a platform that can offer accessibility from the user end. All text-based games build with well-structured HTML have a strong potential to be fairly easily manipulated through adaptive technologies, including screen readers. Read more...

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24 mai 2015

Most Colleges See Fraternities as Among Their Top Liability Risks

By Chronicle Staff. Report: “URMIA Survey Shows Institutions Are Attempting to Manage Fraternity Risk”
Organization: University Risk Management and Insurance Association
Summary: In the wake of numerous news reports of bad, and sometimes criminal, behavior by fraternities and their members, the association surveyed its members to see if colleges are reconsidering how they oversee those organizations. More...

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24 mai 2015

How Public Colleges Use Merit Aid to Recruit Students Who Can Pay

By Chronicle Staff. Report: “The Out-of-State Student Arms Race”Author: Stephen Burd, senior policy analyst
Organization: New America
Summary: The report uses information from the Common Data Set to describe the use of merit-based student aid at public colleges and universities. More...

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24 mai 2015

Israel-Boycott Debate Spurs Fight Over Definition of ‘Anti-Semitism’

By Peter Schmidt. Allegations of anti-Semitism leveled at advocates of economic sanctions against Israel have spurred a fight over how colleges should define speech that victimizes Jewish students. Some Jewish groups want colleges to use a definition of anti-Semitism crafted by the U.S. State Department, but many critics of Israel argue that the State Department’s definition is too expansive and covers statements about Israel that should be considered fair game. More...

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24 mai 2015

U. of Hawaii Board Votes to Disinvest in Fossil-Fuel Companies

By Andrew Mytelka. The University of Hawaii’s Board of Regents voted on Thursday to divest the system’s financial holdings in any companies involved in the production of fossil fuels, Pacific Business News reports. More...

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24 mai 2015

Judge Orders Texas Tech to Restore Professor’s Post

By Heidi Landecker. Texas Tech University must restore the teaching responsibilities of a professor who says his anti-tenure views cost him a deanship and an honorary-professor title, The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports. James C. Wetherbe had accused the university’s former provost, Robert Smith, of reducing his teaching load and failing to award him the Paul Whitfield Horn Professorship because of his outspoken views against tenure. More...

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24 mai 2015

Wis. Lawmakers Reject Governor’s Plan to Scrap For-Profit Oversight Agency

By Nick DeSantis. State legislators in Wisconsin have voted down a controversial proposal by Gov. Scott Walker to eliminate an agency that oversees for-profit colleges, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. More...

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