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Student Punished for Facebook Group Starts $10-Million Lawsuit

Posted on March 23, 2010 by | Comments Off on Student Punished for Facebook Group Starts $10-Million Lawsuit

The Chronicle: Student Punished for Facebook Group Starts $10-Million Lawsuit

A Ryerson University engineering student punished for his Facebook study group has started a $10-million class-action lawsuit against the Toronto institution.

Chris Avenir faced 147 charges of academic misconduct two years ago for his Facebook group, which let engineering students “discuss/post solutions” to homework problems. The course stipulated that students had to conduct independent work. Mr. Avenir faced expulsion, but a faculty committee ruled he should instead receive a zero for one assignment and a disciplinary note in his file.

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Friending a Strike…Oakland U strike on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube

Posted on September 10, 2009 by | Comments Off on Friending a Strike…Oakland U strike on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube

Inside Higher Ed: Friending a Strike

When Oakland University, in Michigan, and the union that represents 600 of its faculty members failed to reach labor agreement last week, the professors went on strike and the university shut down — while representatives from the opposing sides went behind closed doors in downtown Detroit to negotiate. At the same time, a much larger and more eclectic group began discussing the issue in a space that had no doors — just walls.

Facebook walls, that is. Faculty officers from the Association of American University Professors (AAUP) created a group on the popular social networking site and began posting updates on the negotiations. They also started using the union’s Facebook fan page to post fliers, press releases, and links to media coverage of the strike. Supporters began leaving messages on the page’s comment wall. Others started chattering on the wall of the university’s official fan page. Soon, a student group devoted to the strike appeared on the social networking site and quickly acquired more than 300 members. Then a Twitter hash tag. Then another. Then a Flickr account. Then a YouTube channel.

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Ohio State to allow posts on Facebook page

Posted on April 8, 2009 by | Comments Off on Ohio State to allow posts on Facebook page

AP: OSU to allow posts on Facebook page

University changes direction after removing comments about Gee

COLUMBUS: Ohio State University said Monday it will allow postings on its Facebook page that don’t always paint the university in a positive light.

Last week, the university deleted comments by a graduate student who asked about OSU President E. Gordon Gee’s service on the board of an energy company criticized by environmentalists.

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