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Americans love rankings. We rank fantasy football picks, popular music singles, employees and students. Lists with titles like the “Top 10,” the “Top 100” or “Worst 50” are a staple in popular culture, and wehave added universities to the list of lists.
This month U.S. News and World Report published its 2014 college rankings. Marquette was listed No. 75 among the list of 400 “national universities,” an “eight-spot jump” according to campus marketing. Six other schools were also ranked at 75.
The ranking was dominant on the university homepage, advertised on television screens and posters  around campus and tweeted out to thousands of followers: “Marquette jumps eight spots on U.S. News’ annual Best Colleges list.” More...

By Thomas J. Botzman. American ingenuity and innovation have fueled our way of life for generations. Although the most obvious signs of innovation are new products, such as handheld computing devices or cars that can park themselves, other forms of innovation are also needed to create a robust economy. Higher education innovates in our academic programs that provide both employable skills and a base for responsible citizenship. During his recent multi-city tour, President Barack Obama expressed a belief that future innovation, a thriving economy and an affordable college education are linked together. More...

As he sits in class at Eastern Michigan University, a flood of images streams from Tony Saylor's vibrant, creative mind down through his pen and onto paper.
Often, his doodling features the 9-year-old character Viper Girl who battles monsters with her pet fox Logan. Saylor, 22, has even self-published three books of their adventures.
Saylor's professors didn't exactly welcome his constant drawing, but once he explained it was the only way he could hope to process their lectures -- and even to stay awake -- most let him continue. Read more...

By James Michael Nolan. I have altogether too many friends and colleagues in higher education who seem to think that being active in social media is a choice, on par with, say, choosing to watch Breaking Bad, or taking up golf.
A few still try to collect "cute points" for not being active in social media and remaining ignorant about it. "I wouldn't know the difference between a blog and a Tweetle," one told me. He was really pleased with himself.
Others righteously, publicly, and aggressively eschew the cute points and go after the moral high ground points of "Who has TIME for that nonsense?" or "People have forgotten how to have a real relationship..." Blah blah blah. More...

By Marcelo Knobel. Brazil has the world's 7th largest Gross Domestic Product (GDP), with a population of around 195 million inhabitants, distributed in 27 states (more than five thousand cities). The country has a peculiar higher education system, with a relatively small number of public research universities and a large number of private institutions, both philanthropic and for-profit. Although the system has been growing substantially in the last 15 years, the number of young people attending the university has not exceeded 14% of the 18-25 age cohort eligible to pursue university level study. Approximately 6 million students attend a higher education institution in Brazil— 75% of these students are enrolled in private institutions (approximately half of them are for-profit institutions). Read more...