From Blue Books to Secure Laptops  Oct. 8

Some colleges are experimenting with software that turns laptops into digital blue books, which could spell the end of the dreaded exam scribble. more

Do-It-Yourself Transcripts  Oct. 8

Rutgers, following lead of U. of California, will have applicants submit their own grades and the university will check them only after decision to enroll. Is this the wave of the future? more

Helping Community College Students Beat the Odds  Oct. 8

Hudson Valley finds that combining and coordinating various student services yields unusually high retention rate. more

Support for Report on ‘Rethinking’ Student Aid  Oct. 8

Plan to reshape federal financial aid system gains general backing at Capitol Hill forum, even though it would threaten popular programs. more

Quick Takes: Enrollment Data, Long Beach Senate Condemns Professor’s Views, Study Abroad and Community Colleges, $125M for Harvard, Postdocs Unionized at Western Ontario, Nobel in Chemistry, Los Angeles Semesters  Oct. 8

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New Presidents or Provosts: Coosa Valley/Northwestern Technical Colleges, Purdue U.-North Central, Spring Hill College, U. of Massachusetts Medical School  Oct. 8

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News from the past two weeks

Below, find News stories published over the past two weeks. For older items, please search the archives.

• E-Textbooks for All  Oct. 7
• Open Access or Faux Access?  Oct. 7
• 2 Wins for Illinois Professors  Oct. 7
• Bands Gone Wild  Oct. 7
• A Strike Against Labor  Oct. 7
• Quick Takes: Getting Aid to Community College Students, President Admits Drunk Driving, Nobel in Physics, College Women Seek Smart Men  Oct. 7
• Margaret Spellings Looks Back  Oct. 6
• Putting What Works to Better Use  Oct. 6
• Cruise Virus Becomes Campus Virus  Oct. 6
• More Scrutiny on Conflicts of Interest  Oct. 6
• Sharing Tuition News Early  Oct. 6
• Quick Takes: Bombs at 2 Colleges, Battle Over Anti-Abortion Scholars, Pollock Painting May Be Safe, 3 Europeans Share Nobel in Medicine, Deal at Windsor, St. Augustine’s Sports Violations  Oct. 6
• A Tale of Two GI Bills  Oct. 3
• Slavic Immigrants vs. Gay Rights  Oct. 3
• A Little Rebellion Proves a Good Thing  Oct. 3
• In Study Abroad, Dispute Over Roaming  Oct. 3
• One for the Little Guy  Oct. 3
• Quick Takes: Protest Over Political Ban at Illinois, Another Scandal for Pa. Loan Agency, Patent Loss for Johns Hopkins, Sick Students at Georgetown, Ig Nobel Prizes  Oct. 3
• Trickle-Down Economic Duress  Oct. 2
• New Challenge to TOEFL  Oct. 2
• Redefining Division III  Oct. 2
• California Passes Law Protecting Animal Researchers  Oct. 2
• Understanding Students Who Were ‘Born Digital’  Oct. 2
• Palin’s Campus Outpost  Oct. 2
• Quick Takes: New Research Rules Urged at VCU, Ads Banned From History Course, Savings Decline, Another Conference Location Controversy, Vanderbilt Replaces Loans With Grants, ‘Working Mother’ Honors Cornell and Harvard, Tidings from IRS, Beheaded Croc  Oct. 2
• The Spellings Plan for Simplification  Oct. 1
• Shifting Winds in Arabic Teaching  Oct. 1
• A ‘Penalty’ for Starting at a Community College?  Oct. 1
• ‘Stuck in the Shallow End’  Oct. 1
• Border-Crossing Universities  Oct. 1
• Quick Takes: Prof Accused of Hacking, Megagift Possible for Texas, 4 Suspended for Obama Effigy, Anthropology Debate, Trouble for MyRichUncle, Liberal Arts Advice for Next President, American Indian Enrollments, New Leader for Hughes Institute  Oct. 1
• Online Campus, Part II: The Spinoff  Sept. 30
• A Crack in the Dominance of the LSAT?  Sept. 30
• Separate But Equal?  Sept. 30
• ‘Emblematic’ Leader for NYU’s Abu Dhabi Campus  Sept. 30
• ‘The Dionysian End to Summer’  Sept. 30
• Quick Takes: Rich Students and Poor Students, Endnote Creator Sues Over Zotero, Shortage of Marine Scientists Projected, Another Strike in Canada  Sept. 30
• Covering Up or Scaring Off?  Sept. 29
• If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em  Sept. 29
• After the SAT Report, What Next?  Sept. 29
• The Competition to Be Transparent  Sept. 29
• Quick Takes: Probe in Miss., Safety Bill Altered, Indicted Official Had Prior Conviction, New Grades at Harvard Law, Communication Profs Condemn Illinois, Title IX Settlement, UCLA’s New Prime, From Princeton to DeVry, State College Leader Retires  Sept. 29
• New Programs: Nursing, Structural Engineering, Anthropology, Sustainable Urban Engineering, Entrepreneurship  Sept. 29
• Creating the Anti-Rankings  Sept. 26
• Warning Signals  Sept. 26
• Want a Good Parking Spot? Read On  Sept. 26
• Barriers to Student Voting  Sept. 26
• Quick Takes: Next Step on Anthropology Ethics, More Fallout in Iowa, Alabama Bars Undocumented Students, No Date Yet on NRC Grad Rankings, Help for Iraqi National Library, College Apologizes for Typo, Graduation Surprise  Sept. 26
• New Presidents or Provosts: CUNY Graduate Center, Nouveau U., Santa Clara U., Seattle Community Colleges, U. of the Arts  Sept. 26
• After You Go SAT-Optional  Sept. 25
• Stamping Out Smoking — Even Outdoors  Sept. 25
• A Farewell to Arms Races?  Sept. 25
• One Student, and Thousands of Dollars, at a Time  Sept. 25
• Quick Takes: Advice for Obama/McCain, U.S. Poised to Keep Spending Flat, Obama in Effigy at George Fox, Defining the Bishop’s Role, Lambuth President Steps Down, NIH Chief to Depart, Equity in Science Prizes, Drug Makers’ Payments to Scientists  Sept. 25
• New Programs: Physical Therapy, Culinary Science, Public Policy, Humanitarian Engineering, Jewish Studies  Sept. 25