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Thursday, June 2, 2011

Inside Higher Ed June 2, 2011 Daily Update

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June 2, 2011

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Concessions or a Cave-In?

In softening rules requiring for-profit and vocational programs to prepare students for "gainful employment," Education Dept. disappoints supporters and fails to mollify critics. more

Adjuncts 2, Catholic Colleges 0

NLRB's Chicago office finds that St. Xavier University isn't religious enough to bar a union for those who teach off the tenure track. more

In Study Abroad, the Aftershocks

At conference of international educators, panelists discuss the state of international education in Japan and Mexico. more


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Prescriptions and Prevention

Abuse of legal drugs among college students continues to rise, but successful methods of averting problems are less prevalent. more

No Room for the Needy?

Education Trust analysis asserts that only five colleges succeed at making quality higher education affordable for low-income students -- a finding challenged as overstated. more

Other Departments' Business

Colleges should integrate liberal arts into business majors to produce better professionals, Carnegie Foundation report argues. more

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Chushingura and Catastrophes

In an excerpt from his new book on MIT, Samuel Jay Keyser talks about why commissions and task forces may be ignored, but certain events can lead to real change at a university. more

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Motherhood After Tenure: The Legacy of the Freedom Riders

Mama PhD

Last week I attended the 50th Reunion of the Freedom Riders, in Jackson, Mississippi, an event which honored the courageous men and women who rode buses and trains into the deep south to test a ... more

The Interregnum

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Don't tell anyone...The brief gap between graduation and the start of summer classes is blissfully quiet.I can actually get some work done. I can even have open-ended conversations without looking ... more

The Essential Mobile Teaching (and Learning) Platform?

Technology and Learning

Thought experiment. You are teaching a course that has a significant online (distance) component. Your mobile platform will be used to access both the LMS (learning management system) and e-mail for ... more

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Getting to Green

So here it is, the first of June (already!). I often lose track of time in late May, because life gets so crazy. Students finishing off their projects is the least of it. Additionally, there are all ... more

Internationalization is About Cultural Change

University of Venus

Internationalization is about changing culture. The best higher ed internationalization strategy in the world is doomed to fail if it doesn't include a comprehensive plan for changing the culture ... more

Journal 2

The Education of Oronte Churm

That odd feeling when time comes unstuck in us. To read Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night (1934) and find the name "Miss Television," or see in his Gatsby (1925) a swastika. Realizing with ... more

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