Times Argus: UVM cites safety concerns in canceling Mexican study program
The University of Vermont has called off plans for a semester-long study program in Oaxaca, Mexico, citing safety concerns associated with civil unrest there, authorities said.
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News Sentinel: UT Press halts sales of book charged with plagiarism
The University of Tennessee Press suspended sales of a book by a UT Chattanooga adjunct history professor after allegations of plagiarism by another author. New Hampshire author William Marvel complained to UT Press that Dr. R. Fred Ruhlman’s book, “Captain Henry Wirz and Andersonville Prison: A Reappraisal,” borrows heavily from his own work on the subject as well as from other authors.
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Akron Beacon Journal: College probes thesis plagiarism
Ohio University plans to examine additional theses and dissertations in its investigation of possible plagiarism committed by engineering graduates.
David Koonce, an industrial engineer at the university, will pull a random sample of the 1,500 papers submitted since 1980 and then compare them with papers that have similar titles, advisers and departments.
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Sacramento Bee: CSUS faculty told to outline academic cuts
With fewer part-time professors, students at California State University, Sacramento, will be cramming into larger classes next semester, staying home to take online courses, or listening to lectures on iPods.
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Union-Tribune: College district chief altered own contract
Faculty leaders stepped up their demand yesterday that Chancellor Omero Suarez resign from the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District because he had his contract changed without board approval.
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The New York Times: Scientists Endorse Candidate Over Teaching of Evolutio
In an unusual foray into electoral politics, 75 science professors at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland have signed a letter endorsing a candidate for the Ohio Board of Education.
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The Columbus Dispatch: Rewrite theses, OU tells 2 students
One Ohio University doctoral student is off the hook, but two others accused of plagiarizing their master’s theses face university suspension if they don’t rewrite their papers by Dec. 31.
The Chronicle: Controversial Physicist Will Leave Brigham Young U. to Pursue 9/11 Research
Steven E. Jones, a physicist whose theories on the collapse of the World Trade Center’s twin towers have made him the unlikely darling of 9/11 conspiracy theorists, is retiring from Brigham Young University, the university confirmed on Sunday.
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Inside Higher Ed: Research Review Boards Faulted
nstitutional review boards — never designed for oversight of journalism programs or surveys by sociology majors — have gone way beyond their mandates and purpose, to the detriment of scholarship, says a new report from the American Association of University Professors.
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Star News: College Students Sue Over Coed Move
A group of students at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College sued the school Friday, challenging its decision to begin admitting men next fall.
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Houston Chronicle: Report: College grads history-deficient
College students are graduating with scant understanding of the nation’s history and institutions, leading them to become uninformed citizens who neither vote nor participate in community service, according to an independent report.
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The Boston Globe: Yes to women’s colleges
TWO WOMEN’S colleges, Regis College and Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, announced recently they will become co educational. Does this matter? Haven’t today’s women “made it”? Are women’s colleges still relevant today?
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Daily Press: Students suspend boycott of decision to allow men
More than 200 Randolph-Macon Woman’s College students suspended their weeklong boycott of classes to protest the decision to allow men to the 115-year-old women’s college.
The Chronicle News Blog: Universities Cash In on the Business of Sports, but Fall Short Academically
The Wall Street Journal published a special report (subscription required) on Saturday about the “Business of Sports,” including several articles that touched on intercollegiate athletics. One article reported that more than 300 universities offer degrees in sports management but criticized many of the programs, saying that they often lack academic substance and fail to help students land jobs.
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NBC17.com: Professor’s Digital Lessons Put On Hold
A North Carolina State University professor’s idea to have students pay for lecture downloads has been put on hold while a new department dean reviews the concept.
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The New York Times: Debate Grows as Colleges Slip in Graduations
When a research group started tracking what happens to Chicago’s public school graduates after they enter college, it came upon a startling and dispiriting finding: the graduation rates at two of the city’s four-year public universities were among the worst in the country.
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Inside Higher Ed: The Standardization of College Teaching
By Shari Wilson
As an undergraduate at a state university, I read the schedule of classes long before I had to register. I scanned instructors’ names first. Next I considered courses, and finally I would take the action that would decide my class schedule — I went to the university bookstore and looked at the textbooks each professor required
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Los Angeles Times: Students, Alumnae Boo Opening School to Men
Amid boos and shouts of “traitors,” Randolph-Macon Woman’s College officials announced that men would be admitted to the 115-year-old Lynchburg institution starting in 2007.
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San Jose Mercury News: Shultz speech sets off plagiarism debate
When Stanford University economics professor and Hoover Institution fellow George P. Shultz delivered his prestigious Kissinger Lecture at the Library of Congress, he used entire paragraphs that had been previously published in a Yale University journal.
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A study all private universities in the US, released by a psychiatrist at Washington State University, shows that their ranking in Ultimate Frisbee edges out both SATs and grades as a predictor of academic performance!
Those ranked in the top half for Ultimate have a graduation rate of over 85%, while those in the bottom half just 60%. The top seven have nearly as many Rhodes scholars and Marshall scholars as all others combined.
The son of the study’s author, who helped with research, is on a U.S. national Ultimate Frisbee team.
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