Problems viewing this email? Click here to view this email with your browser. | | Daily News Update June 27, 2011 Good morning. Here's what's new on Inside Higher Ed today: News Want to advertise here? | Some colleges make new efforts to discourage students from bringing vehicles to campus. Driving them away can be tough. more | Looking for savings, Tennessee State eliminates "low-producing" majors, including physics and Africana studies. Critics ask why a black college would cut such offerings. more | Leading economist argues that U.S. has produced too few graduates for decades -- and that failure to reverse trend imperils economy. more | Advertisement | One of the most diverse foreign language programs in the country is at a community college in New Jersey. more | more | Quick Takes Views The authors of Academically Adrift may be letting black students off the hook, to the students' own detriment, writes Roy L. Beasley. more | Career Advice To cultivate good fortune in your career, you need to take some risks, writes Nate Kreuter. more | FROM DUQUESNE TO DUBAI -- Inside Higher Ed has the world of higher education covered. Click here to bring international higher education IN FOCUS. BlogU A quick thought experiment: if you were offered your tuition back -- minus any financial aid -- in return for surrendering your bachelor's degree -- and any graduate degrees thereafter -- would you ... more | I'm rejuvenated, revived and relaxed. I feel smart again. Why? I've spent the week being an intellectual kid again.I recently returned from a trip to Israel, my first visit to the country. I had ... more | The NYTimes reported on 6/23 that Providence Equity is close to a deal to acquire Blackboard (market capitalization about $1.4 billion).First, I think that this deal makes sense for Providence ... more | Final couplet to an unwritten poem:A desperate way of living, calledGet It While You Can. more | I've been waiting to write a blog with a racy message. However, my title of "passion" isn't describing a steamy relationship; rather it describes an intellectual relationship between a dean, ... more | I was a little shell-shocked after reading the comments on Aeron's June 15 post. I hadn't looked at them when I wrote last week about my enjoyment of her column, and I was amazed at the vitriol. I ... more | After a visit with my Northwest Academic Campus Computing (NWACC) friends at a resort in Washington on the beautiful Columbia River, where we talked about many law and policy issues, I am in San ... more | There are psychiatrists in our universities who think half the population is mentally ill. There are leading research psychiatrists who believe that anti-psychotic drugs are fine for two-year-olds. ... more | It's not my job to ruin your summer vacation. Really.But it is my job to point out that pandering to the nation's current summer vacation habits is bad for the USA. Also humanity. And most ... more | Featured Jobs Morehouse College The College's 10th president, Dr. Robert Michael Franklin has established the Five Wells for the men of Morehouse: Well-Read, Well-Spoken, Well-Traveled, Well-Dressed, and Well-Balanced. In order ... more | The University of Toledo The University Of Toledo Department of English invites applications for five instructional positions in the Composition Program, beginning fall 2011. The position is a one-year non-tenure- track ... more | Ivy Tech Community College Please visit http://IvyTech.edu/teach for information regarding qualifications, application procedures, and positions available at each of our campuses throughout Indiana. Ivy Tech anticipates ... more | Council for Adult & Experiential Learning We offer two types of positions through LearningCounts.org: portfolio assessor and course instructor. Portfolio Assessors will be assigned to review individual student portfolios. All submitted ... more | Mid-America Christian University Enjoy the challenges associated with a rapidly growing university? Knowledgeable about current federal and state policies and accreditation requirements that impact the Office of the Registrar and ... more | Gonzaga University ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: • Manage the day to day operations of the LGBT Resource Center office. • Supervise and hire work study student(s) • Work closely with clubs and organizations such as ... more | | Looking for more information? To make sure you get the next issue of our newsletter, please add newsroom@insidehighered.com to your address book.
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