N.Y.U. Gives Its Stars Loans for Summer Homes

By ARIEL KAMINER and ALAIN DELAQUÉRIÈRE June 17th 2013 | NYTimes

Follow one of Fire Island’s quaint footpaths away from the ferry dock, past modest cottages and better-appointed vacation homes, to an elegant modern beach house that…

Web pioneer Professor Nigel Shadbolt receives knighthood

Published: 17 June 13, 10:57 GMT

Web pioneer and Open Data Institute (ODI) co-founder Professor Nigel Shadbolt has been knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to science and engineering.

Along with inventor of the World Wide Web, fellow Southampton professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Professor Shadbolt set up the ODI in East London's Tech City last December, aiming…

Student loans 'plot' against graduates signals a time for major policy change

Plans to sell off student loans to private investors undermine trust in the whole university process, says Martin McQuillan

The Guardian last week revealed a secret report commissioned by the government from …

The Greek government’s decision to close ERT has been criticised in various activist channels as anti-democratic or even irrational. Yet these activists and opponents of the ERT decision are held together only by thin strands and, in truth, represent heterogenous and conflicting interests and agendas.

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I am a Technical Adviser, Teacher Certification, in Afghanistan.  I am part of a Canadian International Development Agency team of advisers who work for the Teacher Education Directorate in Afghanistan.  My role is to advise and lead in the design of framework for the certification of Afghanistan's 200,000 teachers.  The project generally and my role specifically includes capacity building with directors, leaders and Principals from experimental schools, as well as directors from the Teacher…

Source: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/

By: Claire Cardona

Date: 6/17/13

Tuition and timeliness: A recap of new Texas higher ed laws

By …

Source: www.usatoday.com

By: Sophia Voravong

Date: 6/16/13

3 charged with hacking professors' grade books

The Tippecanoe County prosecutor’s office in Indiana charged three 24-year-olds in April with multiple felonies and misdemeanors in connection with a grade-tampering case. The case was unsealed June 13, 2013.…

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Date: 6/15/13

By: Anant Agarwal (MIT Professor and President of EdX)

Source: www.universityworldnews.com

Date: 6/15/13

By: Peta Lee

Source: www.breitbart.com

Date: 6/14/13

By: Awr Hawkins

UCLA PROFESSOR: GUN CONTROL CAN'T STOP A 'MADMAN'…

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Date: 6/13/13

By: Adam Taylor

China Has An Incredible Influence On US Higher Education

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This morning, the New York Post …

Source: www.gawker.com

Date: 6/13/13

By: Hamilton Nolan

Indignant Professor Miffed That Students Have Opinions

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Date: 6/13/13

By: Max Fisher

Prominent law professor disputes NYU ‘booted’ Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng

NYU law professor Jerome Cohen, left, interviews Chen Guangcheng in New York. (Mario Tama/Getty…

Touring and digital humanities

Source: www.blogs.wsj.com

Date: 6/13/13

By: Jacob Gershman

IRS Attorneys Gave Heavily to Obama, Says Professor

Internal Revenue Service attorneys who donated to President Barack…

Source: www.cnn.com

Date: 6/11/13 9:03PM

By: Josh Levs

Professor killed by woman with stiletto heel, police say

Ana Lilia Trujillo appeared in court on Tuesday, June 11. Trujillo is charged with murder in the…

Source: Learning Ecosystems



Date:     June 11, 2013



By:        Daniel Christian…

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Date: 6/11/13

By: Pamela Engel 10:31AM EST

Even for Drop-outs, College Pays

by Justin Pope, Associated Press

It sounds like the worst of all worlds borrowing money for college, then dropping out and facing the debt without a degree.

But a new study argues that the investment in even a partial college education is still worth it, amounting to average earnings of $100,000 more over a lifetime than for those who merely finish high school. That’s a better investment return…

When Less Can Be More: Higher Education in 2013

As chancellor of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, I am responsible for a $592 million budget, 7,500 faculty and staff, and more than 200 graduate and undergraduate programs. I also hold a position as Professor of Accounting, and I am formally trained as a Certified Public Accountant, with a research focus on governmental and nonprofit accounting.

The financial crisis has forced virtually every family…