Inside Higher Ed May 19, 2011 Daily Update

Problems viewing this email? Click here to view this email with your browser. Daily News Update May 19, 2011 Hello. Here's what's new on our site today: News Want to advertise here? Community College If You Can Pay California considers letting campuses set much higher tuition rate for some programs. Would shift help wealthier students, make the colleges more competitive with for-profits, or both? more Decline of 'Western Civ'? Report finds few colleges require what was once a standard part of the curriculum. Many historians aren't worried. more Divide and Conquer? U. of Illinois challenges union victory and infuriates faculty leaders by saying that state law bars common unit for those on and off the tenure track. more Advertisement Laboratory for Legal Scholarship A new law journal is actually a collection of would-be journals -- incubating experiments in nontraditional topics and formats in search of a market. more No Letup in British Tuition Turmoil Minister's off-the-cuff comments about student access provoke "knee-jerk" responses, and together they threaten reasonable debate over public policy. more New Presidents or Provosts: Butler U., Empire State College, Evergreen State College, Middlesex CC, Nova Scotia CC, Western New Mexico U., Westmont College more Quick Takes Advertisement » New Orleans Merger Plan Withdrawn » Board Conflict Leads to Resignation of Kansas Regents Chair » Indiana U. to Shutter Continuing Education School » Law Student Accused of Plagiarizing Graduation Talk » First Openly Transgender College Basketball Player Leaves Team » Academic Staff at Wisconsin-Superior Vote for Union » Outcome of Contentious Race for L.A. Community College Board » Academic Minute: Rabbit Fever » NCAA Responds to U.S. Letter about Football Playoff » Sex Work to Pay for European Tuition Bills Views Fearlessly Facing the Freshman -- II Steve Allred, a provost, reflects on having taught freshmen for the first time in his career. 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. Advertisement BlogU Ask My Readers: CMS Migration Confessions of a Community College Dean Wise and worldly readers, I need the benefit of your experience.This summer, my college will migrate from one Course Management System to another. (A CMS is the web platform used to run online ... more Arriving at 'Arrival City' Technology and Learning Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World by Doug SaundersMy world shows up for me through a browser, a page, on e-paper. A nice way to go through life, but one ... more "Hockey Stick" refutation withdrawn -- sort of Getting to Green It used to be that one of the best known images in the climate change discussion was the "hockey stick" graph -- a long-term chart of atmospheric temperature variation that showed a pattern of ... more Literacy in the Digital Age: Part II Law, Policy -- and IT? Let's get right to this issue: what role does technology play? Technology, undoubtedly disruptive in our age, would be an easy target upon which we could throw blame. No argument that it plays a ... more What's new and exciting in academe? Academic Minute. Professors discuss ideas from the serious to the light-hearted. WAMC Northeast Public Radio. 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