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Trying to Engage Students Can Break Your Heart
Brian P. Hall blames himself when students flame out. But what should he have done differently?
Live From Educause 2009
Dispatches from the Conference:
- 'You Geeks Have to Become Radical Militant Activists'
- Big East Is a Big Loser in Web Accessibility for Disabled People, Study Says
- Google Uses Educause Meeting as Focus Group for Wave
- Faculty and Technology Officials Fight Over College Values
- Continuing Education and Social Networking Combine to Attract Students
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Social Science on Trial in Tehran
Max Weber, political subversive—or so he's labeled in Iran, along with plenty of other social theorists, writes Charles Kurzman.
- Is This Literary History?
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Global Warming Before Smokestacks
From the Blogs
Tweed: The University of Chicago Writing Program's academic-sentence generator lets you sound like the pompous ass you've always aspired to be.
The Wired Campus: A new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that Americans' friendship networks are shrinking -- but not because people are retreating into online worlds.
On Hiring: As if the job market in modern languages weren't bad enough, this year some universities have devised a new torture for job applicants.
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Student Pay for Selected Jobs
With some student jobs paying as much as $17 an hour, working your way through college isn't what it used to be. Of course tuition isn't what it used to be, either.
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A College That Reveres Reagan Will Mark the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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The Hands-On Environmentalist
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In the News
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Men and Women Differ in How They Decide to Study Abroad, Study Finds
There are significant gender-based differences in how students are influenced by their backgrounds, academic environments, and social interactions.
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College Leaders Offer Blunt Advice for Campuses Hit by Hard Times
Speakers at a leadership forum sponsored by the TIAA-CREF Institute called on public colleges to become more creative, efficient, and entrepreneurial.
- Gaps in Immigrants' Education Levels Play Into Canada's Edge Over U.S., Researchers Say
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Austrian Protests Reveal Challenges in Europe Over Access to Higher Education
- U.S. Senate Rejects Effort to Kill NSF's Political-Science Program
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A Campus Activist-Turned-Administrator Remembers 1969
- Business-School Professors Learn a Hard Lesson in Competition, Study Finds
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What They're Reading on College Campuses
- As Berkeley Enrolls More Out-of-State Students, Racial Diversity May Suffer
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The $50K Club: 58 Private Colleges Pass a Pricing Milestone
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The Ticker
- Senate Democrats Propose Ombudsman for Private Student Loans
- Think Tank Stresses Importance of Information Sharing in Research and Teaching
- Recession Hits British University Presses Hard
- Senate Passes 2010 Budget Bill With $6.9-Billion for NSF
- U.S. Senate Rejects Effort to Kill NSF's Political-Science Program
Wired Campus
- 'You Geeks Have to Become Radical Militant Activists'
- Big East Is a Big Loser in Web Accessibility for Disabled People, Study Says
- Google Uses Educause Meeting as Focus Group for Wave
Arts & Letters Daily
California has more than 5,000 public servants whose state pensions exceed $100,000. For that lucky group, it is the Golden State. Meanwhile, in Texas ... More
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The University of Hong Kong (HKU) was founded in 1911. It is both Hong Kong's first university and an internationally respected centre of intellectual learning and pioneering research discoveries.
HKU has close to a century of...
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