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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Inside Higher Ed May 10, 2011 Daily Update

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May 10, 2011

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Wrong Kind of Accountability?

Texas faculty members chafe at regents' "overly simplistic" tools to measure them. more

Punished for Poll on New Mother

A chair at UC Davis steps down after inquiry into the way he responded to a student's pregnancy. more

If You Build It, They Might Not Come

A report for Duke raises questions about the demand among Chinese students for Western branch campuses. more


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Princeton Review Unloads Community College Venture

Company sells business line that delivers academic programs to two-year institutions seeking to build enrollments. more

New Presidents or Provosts: Bloomsburg U., Coker College, Harvard U., Selkirk College, Southern Virginia U., SUNY-Buffalo, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Beyond Tweets and Blogs

Colleges need to remember that embracing social media is no substitute for a strategy, writes Kevin Tynan. more

Inside Higher Ed presents PRESIDENTIAL PERSPECTIVES, our 2011 survey of college and university presidents. More than 950 college and university presidents took the survey, providing provocative and fascinating insight into a wide range of institutional and economic challenges.

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Interstate Protectionism

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Department of Education has passed a rule requiring colleges that offer online courses to be licensed in every state in which they operate, if they want students to be eligible for financial ... more

Why an EDU Publisher Will Acquire Kaltura, ShareStream or Ensemble

Technology and Learning

In the next year we will see Kaltura, Ensemble, or ShareStream acquired by Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, or Cengage. The founders and early investors in at least one of these ... more

#SAtech profile: @JoeSabado - Part 2

Student Affairs and Technology

Here is part 2 of my interview with Joe Sabado. Joe shared a wealth of information about student affairs units and social media. And, the ever-present issue of "technology competency" is analyzed ... more

Major inflexibility

Getting to Green

On the continuing theme of "what we're not able to imagine, we're very unlikely to do" --One of the unspoken truths at Greenback U is that new academic majors come about slowly. Not that it never ... more

Wednesday, May 25th at 2 p.m. Eastern, Inside Higher Ed presents, "Assuring a Safe Environment for Gay Students," an audio conference on the policies and programs that will make campuses inclusive for LGBT students. Click to register.

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Director of Student & Faculty Support Services-Chelsea Campus

Bunker Hill Community College

Reporting to the Dean of the Chelsea Campus, the Director of Student and Faculty Support Services will lead efforts to continue the development of staff, programs, and outreach initiatives undertaken ... more

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Saint Augustine's College

The Department of Psychology and Sociology at Saint Augustine's College invites applicants for a full-time assistant professor (tenure-track) in psychology. This collegial department values ... more

Dean, Admission and Financial Aid

Schreiner University

Schreiner University, a four-year liberal arts college affiliated by choice and covenant with the Presbyterian Church (USA), announces a nationwide search for a dean of Admission and Financial Aid. ... more

University Writer and Editor

The University of North Carolina at Asheville

Position Summary: This position is a part of the writing team in Marketing and Communications. The department is responsible for enhancing the University's reputation and visibility, as well as ... more

Child Advocacy Clinic Practice Professor of Law (Penn Law School)

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania Law School, a national leader in clinical legal education, seeks to appoint to its Practice Professor track a full-time faculty member to teach in and administer its ... more

Assistant Profesor- Computer Graphics

Ashford University

Ashford University was founded on the principle that education improves lives. Ashford University employees witness such change everyday. Accelerated careers, increased earning power and improved ... more

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