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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Inside Higher Ed June 8, 2011 Daily Update

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Daily News Update

June 8, 2011

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'The Faculty Lounges'

Former Wall Street Journal writer and editor takes aim at tenure, faculty and other reasons that, she says, "you won't get the college education you paid for." more

Whose Money Is It, Anyway?

Dartmouth angers some professors by redirecting a larger chunk of returns on endowed funds to administrative costs. more

Another Round

Although the long-awaited "gainful employment" rule has now been released, latest Senate hearing on for-profit colleges follows a familiar path. more


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'Not Your Parents' Pot'

As marijuana use is increasing, so is its potency -- and health educators struggle with how to address it. more

Improving Web Searches for Students

Publishers look to help students who use mainstream search engines for research to find more reliable academic content on the open Web. more

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Intellectual Affairs

A new book looks at the history of boredom. Scott McLemee is fascinated. more

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Career Advice

Advice for Grad Students -- II

Stephen C. Stearns outlines writing issues facing those in doctoral programs. more

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Seeking and Conferring Legitimacy in Academic Citadels: The Troubling Trend

The World View

I was one of those who had been closely watching the global reaction to the establishment of the "Obiang Chair" that would provide cash to UNESCO and name a science prize after President Teodoro ... more

Consolidating Boards

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Several alert readers sent along info that Connecticut and Rhode Island are considering streamlining their internal education governance systems, presumably to save money. Connecticut's proposal ... more

Amazon's Cloud Outage and 7 Emerging Campus Tech Skills

Technology and Learning

Amazon's post-mortem of its late April cloud services (AWS) outage makes for fascinating reading.As higher ed accelerates our transition to cloud based services, (e-mail, storage, backup, the LMS, ... more

On Mothers and Tigers

University of Venus

Usually, I avoid reading and writing about star books as much as possible. As in the case of various pop stars, general and particular opinions are inevitably influenced by the 'pros' and ... more

#satechBOS Unconference - An #SAtech event

Student Affairs and Technology

Where do student affairs practitioners go for information about technology and student affairs? I generally point folks toward several websites, including: BreakDrink, The SA Collaborative Blog, ... more

Privacy Redux

Law, Policy -- and IT?

In more than one forum over the last couple of years I have made the claim that the concept of privacy has the potential to become a central organizing principle for politics in the twenty-first ... more

Journal 6

The Education of Oronte Churm

Walking down the block, a nice day. A bird's entire wing lying on the sidewalk, not a feather missing from the pattern, unruffled. Only a spot of dried blood at the head of the humerus where it ... more

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