Tag: news
group name: collegefaculty
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September 26, 2007 02:24 AM EDT --
Yes, it'll be old news soon but I'm stunned. Sotheby's will be auctioning the Magna Carta in December and estimates are that it will go for between 20 and 30 . . .
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December 01, 2006 08:15 AM EST --
I found this article on cnn.com and it seemed very timely. As a grad student, I find myself in the unique position of being both a student and a faculty member depending on the day and time. So I've . . .
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November 01, 2006 04:43 PM EST --
Gosh, I'm really hoping this isn't true. I'm all for gay rights, but it is not the role of the faculty to force people to sign on their support for something that go against their belief . . .
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November 10, 2006 08:47 PM EST --
Remembering a role model
My heart skipped a beat when I heard about the death of legendary newsman Ed Bradley. To me, Bradley represented the best of broadcast journalism. He was a gifted correspondent . . .
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November 17, 2006 02:48 PM EST --
What an interesting project. This is the first program like this that I've heard of. It seems like a move away from a deficit model of thinking about lower income students (i.e. we need to provide . . .
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November 15, 2006 10:25 AM EST --
This issue has come up largely through the work of David Horowitz and Anne D. Neal who assert that students, faculty, and staff with more conservative views are being biased against in the academy. . . .
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October 27, 2006 04:32 PM EDT --
I've heard on the news a few times in the past day or two some info about the added income associated with higher educational attainment. Here is a table of that information:
Both Sexes, All . . .
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November 14, 2006 01:27 PM EST --
Ok, that's not exactly the argument that's being made, but this is an example of a case of a minority student charging that the use of race in admissions is hurting their chances for getting into . . .
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November 26, 2006 02:00 PM EST --
I saw this one on cnn.com. A group of students at Boston University (the BU College Rebuplicans)has raised money for a private scholarship that is only for white students (Caucasian Achievement . . .
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December 10, 2006 10:44 AM EST --
I first read about this on chronicle.com.
In order to comply with the new law in MI banning any preference or consideration being given to students in public schools (among other places) on the basis . . .
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February 08, 2007 11:50 AM EST --
Non-profit colleges are playing a serious game of catch-up when it comes to marketing themselves. Even the Chronicle of Higher Education has run features on the impact online marketing is having--as colleges . . .
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April 17, 2008 04:21 PM EDT --
With the passage of the first year since the Virginia Tech shootings, talk has turned to how to prevent future incidents. Listening to NPR today, they were talking about how to identify . . .
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October 01, 2007 01:24 PM EDT --
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I'll be choosing winners at random for the following titles, although it'd be nice if people would pass along the benefit by writing a review of their own. Winners are under no obligation to . . .
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November 02, 2006 11:37 AM EST --
Wow, I read this on chronicle.com this morning. The article is very long; I'll post the beginning of it below and try to summarize the rest.
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by Peter . . .
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February 12, 2007 02:35 AM EST --
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently reviewed an interesting study that looked at black students at elite universities and found that 28% of them were, or were the children of, immigrants (mostly represented . . .
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February 20, 2007 09:24 AM EST --
One popular children’s book is stirring up debate about censorship in public school libraries over one word found on the first page: “scrotum.” Cases of popular children’s . . .
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