News-Gazette: UI’s Global Campus staffers given notice of layoffs
URBANA – Virtually the entire University of Illinois Global Campus staff, which services about 500 students in the online education program, has been notified of layoffs.
Meanwhile, the leader of Global Campus has moved back to faculty status but retains the $344,850 salary he earned as administrator, at least for the next year.
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Bloomberg.com: Harvard Licenses Clothing Line Amid ‘Preppy’ Upswing
Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) — Harvard University, the world’s richest school, licensed its name to a maker of designer clothes to take advantage of a taste for seersucker, khakis, loafers and other “preppy” attire.
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Inside Higher Ed: For-Profit, For God
“The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil,” says Gregory K. Hollifield, assistant professor and chair of the Department of Bible and Theology at Crichton College, in Tennessee. “What scripture says is love of money is the root of all evil.”
That’s an important distinction at Crichton, which is converting from nonprofit to for-profit status but with the intent of maintaining its Christian mission, even emphasizing it — certainly from a marketing standpoint.
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Inside Higher Ed: Outsourcing Teaching, Overseas
In Utah State degree program in Asia, “lead professors” (from Utah) design the course work and assign the grade, but “local facilitators” (from partner universities) deliver much of the course content.
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The New York TImes: Medical School Says Former Army Surgeon Hid Ties to Medtronic
A former military doctor and Medtronic consultant at the center of a research scandal did not tell his medical school employer for a year about his Medtronic ties even as he was conducting company-sponsored research, according to that institution, Washington University in St. Louis.
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The Chronicle: Phoenix Risen
How a history professor became the pioneer of the for-profit revolution
John G. Sperling, as he often reminds those around him, is running out of time. At 88, he is in relatively good health, despite a weak kidney and back problems. He still walks the dog, drives himself to meetings, and seems to have no shortage of nervous energy: Forced to sit still for any length of time, he twirls his cellphone between two fingers or distractedly peels the label from a bottle of water, leaving it in shreds on the table.
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Journal Sentinel: Faculty disclose outside payments
Some UW doctors get 6-figure sums from drug, medical firms
At least 11 doctors with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health received more than $50,000 from drug or medical device companies last year, including seven who pulled in six-figure amounts, according to records obtained by the Journal Sentinel.
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Evening Standard: Privatise top five UK universities to form Ivy League, says Imperial head
Britain’s best universities should be privatised to form an elite US-style Ivy League, a leading higher-education figure said today.
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The Chronicle: Public Colleges Consider Privatization as a Cure for the Common Recession
As state tax revenues plummet, some lawmakers and higher-education leaders are once again looking at loosening the bonds between state governments and public colleges to save money and give colleges the freedom to bolster their bottom lines in new ways.
Over the past two decades, college officials have often lamented the growing need to secure money outside of appropriations. But the continuing economic crisis has led to a new urgency on the part of some public colleges to shed more of their ties to states, despite the mixed results of previous such efforts.
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Inside Higher Ed: Scrutiny and Standards for Branch Campuses
The growing trend of North American colleges creating branches abroad threatens to erode the quality of higher education and to undercut the rights of faculty members, according to a statement issued Wednesday by the American Association of University Professors and the Canadian Association of University Teachers.
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The Chronicle: AAUP Urges Faculty Role in Protecting Workers’ Rights at Overseas Campuses
The American Association of University Professors and its Canadian counterpart jointly issued a statement on Wednesday calling on colleges with campuses abroad to protect the rights of overseas workers and give their faculty more say in planning foreign programs.
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Inside Higher Ed: Protection for For-Profit Colleges
Arbitration clauses in contracts are designed to give parties a clear-cut and less expensive route to resolving potential disputes. But provisions that require parties to go through arbitration and relinquish their right to pursue other legal avenues have been controversial, particularly when one of the parties is viewed as being at a disadvantage to the other, as in the case of nursing homes and their clients.
Those issues took center stage in a decision issued Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, which reversed a lower court’s ruling last year forcing a for-profit college to defend itself in court against 38 students’ charges of fraudulent misrepresentation and negligence. In its ruling, a three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit said that the arbitration clause contained in the enrollment agreement that students signed before entering High-Tech Institute, a vocational institution in Missouri, compels the student plaintiffs to enter arbitration before they can rightfully pursue their claims in state or federal court.
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The Chronicle: President of Harvey Mudd College Lands High-Profile Microsoft Board Seat
Maria M. Klawe, the offbeat president of tiny Harvey Mudd College, has landed a seat on the board of one of the highest-profile corporations in America: the technology giant Microsoft. The appointment could help Ms. Klawe — a computer scientist who juggles and skateboards in her spare time — raise the profile of Mudd, a 730-student college in Claremont, Calif., that emphasizes science, mathematics, and engineering.
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Los Angeles Times: Pasadena-based plan for online university draws interest, skepticism
An Israeli entrepreneur hopes to start a global, very-low-cost institution soon. But by dispensing with professors, it’s already a tough sell for some.
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Inside Higher Ed: Deal Dead in Ohio
March 4, 2009
A private company that sought to help the University of Toledo for a share of tuition revenues has “deferred” its negotiations, citing a lack of “alignment” between faculty who opposed the plan and administrators who embraced it.
In an e-mail circulated on campus Tuesday, Provost Rosemary Haggett lamented the end of talks with Higher Ed Holdings and criticized faculty for their objections.
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The Chronicle News Blog: George Mason U. Will Close Its Campus in the Persian Gulf
George Mason University has decided to shut down its branch campus in the Persian Gulf emirate of Ras al Khaymah, after its local partners drastically slashed the campus’s operating budget while expecting the university to nearly double the number of students enrolled at the campus, the university’s provost said Thursday.
Inside Higher Ed: Gulf Withdrawal
It’s the kind of story that could have come straight out of Peter Stearns’ new book. Discussing the potential pitfalls of setting up branch campuses in foreign lands, the George Mason University provost strikes a sober tone:
“This is difficult terrain, with a shaky past; caution is abundantly justified,” Stearns writes in Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities: Challenges and Opportunities.
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Inside Higher Ed: Private Conversations
Tension is mounting at the University of Toledo, where administrators are exploring a partnership with a private company known for churning out quick and inexpensive degrees.
Toledo officials are considering a deal with Higher Ed Holdings, a Texas-based company that would help deliver online masters-level education courses to students in exchange for a share of tuition revenues. The company, founded by Dallas entrepreneur Randy Best, already has a similar arrangement with Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
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Des Moines Register: Waldorf College may sell assets to online school
Forest City, Ia. – Waldorf College leaders are pursuing a rare path for a nonprofit, faith-based college – selling its assets to a for-profit, online university.
College President Dick Hanson confirmed Friday that school officials were considering such a move with Columbia Southern University of Alabama. The proposal comes as the 106-year-old Lutheran- affiliated college struggles with its finances. It has seen enrollment and donations shrink.
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