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First Year Focus-Understanding Student Choices
September is upon us and with the beginning of another academic year comes a fresh crop of undergraduate students jostling...
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Listservs and the "Unsubscribe me" Meme
Initially, this post was going to be titled: "If you've ever sent "unsubscribe" to a listserv, please break the glass...
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Google, Motorola, and Our Nationwide Bandwidth Market Failure
I've been mulling over the Google $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobile. The consensus on the rationale for the purchase...
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International student mobility highlights in the OECD's Education at a Glance 2011
Education at a Glance 2011 was released today by the OECD. The report is replete with data about education systems...
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Patriot Act: Technology and Jurisprudence
[This blog post is the second in a third on the Patriot Act article extract.] Because Internet communications are “electronic,”...
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Definition: The Whoopsydoodle School
Amateurs, novices, and undergraduates who espouse the aesthetic of the infantile: Everything they make must be regarded as art because...
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The Time for Science
Even if lawmakers don't seem aware of how they could use research to improve the economy, colleges need to push ahead, writes Richard S. Herrick.
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Ask the Administrator: Integrity of Integrity Policies
A returning correspondent writes: Our current academic integrity policy results in a student failing a course if they are caught...