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Friday, July 1, 2011

Half-Full State Budgets? / Tuition 'Hall of Shame' -- INSIDE HIGHER ED Weekly Update -- July 1, 2011

Hello. Articles about money dominated news on our site this week (yes, again). As the 2011-12 fiscal year starts, we took a look at how public higher education is faring in state budget deliberations, and we assessed the U.S. Education Department's first-ever list of most-expensive colleges and of those that have raised their tuitions the most. And we invite you to participate in a July 29 audio conference aimed at helping colleges identify courses in which significant numbers of students fail -- so they can mine the data to figure out how to help more students succeed. Find out more at
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BUDGETS HALF EMPTY, GLASS HALF FULL: While many public colleges will see state appropriations cut upwards of 10 percent, officials say the cuts aren't as bad as they could have been given the pressures facing lawmakers:
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NAUGHTY AND NICE ON COLLEGE PRICE: U.S. Education Department has released lists -- 54 in all -- of most and least expensive colleges and those increasing tuition at the fastest rate. Will they matter?
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RANKING THE ONLINE COLLEGES: U.S. News brings its analysis to digital programs -- and also accidentally writes article on unaccredited institution:
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NOT JUST FLORIDA STATE: Another university has a Koch grant giving the foundation a role in hiring; other awards draw scrutiny for what they say about research topics:
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'TIMES' TICKS ON: The Grey Lady continues wading into higher education, says full-fledged degree programs are imminent:
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CARS NOT WELCOME HERE: Some colleges make new efforts to discourage students from bringing vehicles to campus. Driving them away can be tough:
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COSTLIER COMMUNITY COLLEGES: Rising tuitions (and inadequate transfer policies) are putting even two-year institutions out of reach for many Americans, report asserts:
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TRANSLATING SUCCESS: One of the most diverse foreign language programs in the country is at a community college in New Jersey:
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PLAN TO RESTRUCTURE BRITISH HIGHER ED: Long-awaited "white paper" proposes greatly increased competition for highly qualified students and more access to student loan funds for for-profit providers:
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ON ATHLETES AND AID: Report shows that institutions in NCAA Division III, which does not allow athletics scholarships, need reminder to follow cardinal rule:
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ALL THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES:
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In "Views":

--The authors of 'Academically Adrift' may be letting black students off the hook, to the students' own detriment, writes Roy L. Beasley:
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--Women from Pakistan, Canada and the United States consider the implications of the brutal attack on a graduate student from Bangladesh -- and the reactions to it:
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A new approach to literary criticism looks at the history of energy sources. Scott McLemee checks its mileage:
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--Humanities fields need more attention, financial support and students, and scholars shouldn't be afraid to say so, writes Matthew Pratt Guterl:
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--With K-12 teachers under attack from all sides, college professors must speak up on behalf of their peers and former students, for lofty and selfish reasons, Richard Greenwald writes:
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--ALL THIS WEEK'S VIEWS PIECES:
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In "Career Advice"
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CULTIVATING SERENDIPITY
Tyro Tracts
To cultivate good fortune in your career, you need to take some risks, writes Nate Kreuter:
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PROFESSOR AS ENTREPRENEUR
Running 'Round the Ivory Tower
Faculty members receive very mixed messages about how they should spend their time and advance their careers, writes Terri E. Givens:
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INVINCIBLE MENTORS
A Kinder Campus
In the debut of her column, A Kinder Campus, Maria Shine Stewart remembers two very different campus presences who shaped her career -- and how she channels them in her dealings with others:
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In "Blog U"
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ACADEMIC ROCK STARS
University of Venus
Taking this degree part time doesn't grant me much freedom to take advantage of the extra-curricular activities that I encourage all my other graduate students to engage with. I would love to attend ...
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COLLEGE RADIO
Confessions of a Community College Dean
Apparently, college radio has fallen on hard times. This should come as no surprise, since radio generally has fallen on hard times.I was a denizen of college radio in the late 80's, just before the ...
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ARE YOU A WORD TRACK CHANGES OR GOOGLE DOCS PERSON?
Technology and Learning
The world is divided into two types of people: those who prefer Track Changes in Word and those who prefer to write collaboratively in Google Docs. Which one are you?I'm firmly in the Google Docs ...
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#ISTE11: #EDTECH + STUDENTS + LEARNING
Student Affairs and Technology
I had the opportunity to attend the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Annual Conference and Exposition this week. With almost 13,000 attendees and more than 10,000 backchannel ...
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MATH GEEK MOM: BICENTENNIAL MEMORIES
Mama PhD
I recently found myself working a problem on the board in Statistics in which two values were subtracted to find the difference that turned out to be 0.1972. As I read the value from the board, ...
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JOURNAL 22
The Education of Oronte Churm
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