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NYU Offers Home Loans For Top Profs

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

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…

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Added by Susan B. on June 18, 2013 at 12:14pm — No Comments

From Professor to Knight

Web pioneer Professor Nigel Shadbolt receives knighthood

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…

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Added by Susan B. on June 18, 2013 at 12:10pm — No Comments

Student Loans vs. Graduates

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 …

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Added by Susan B. on June 18, 2013 at 12:08pm — No Comments

View What links here ERT’s shutdown, social amnesia, and communicative entitlements

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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Added by Rodanthi Tzanelli on June 18, 2013 at 7:50am — No Comments

Prof. Bernie Potvin & Afghanistan

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…

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Added by Bernie L. Potvin on June 17, 2013 at 9:30pm — No Comments

The New Higher Ed Laws

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

By: Claire Cardona

Date: 6/17/13



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

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Students Hack Professor's Accounts

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.…

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Added by FacultyRow Director on June 16, 2013 at 4:00pm — No Comments

The Online University Revolution

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Date: 6/15/13

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

Online universities: it's time for teachers to join the revolution

Moocs, the new model of university education, have no race, colour, sex or wealth barriers,…

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Added by FacultyRow Director on June 15, 2013 at 10:13pm — No Comments

Solutions For Higher Ed (UK)

Source: www.universityworldnews.com

Date: 6/15/13

By: Peta Lee

Commission on future proposes major changes for HE…
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UCLA Professor - Gun Control & Madmen

Source: www.breitbart.com

Date: 6/14/13

By: Awr Hawkins

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

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Added by FacultyRow Director on June 14, 2013 at 11:35am — No Comments

China's Influence on US Higher Ed

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Date: 6/13/13

By: Adam Taylor

China Has An Incredible Influence On US Higher Education

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Daniel Goodman/Business Insider

This morning, the New York Post …

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Added by FacultyRow Director on June 13, 2013 at 8:45pm — No Comments

UK Professors Despise Public Ratings

Source: www.gawker.com

Date: 6/13/13

By: Hamilton Nolan



Indignant Professor Miffed That Students Have Opinions



For those of you who are not devout followers of the British higher education blogosphere, allow us to bring you up to…

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NYU Law Professor Helps Free Chinese Activist

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…

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Touring the digital humanities

Touring and digital humanities

What does it mean to be a fully entitled citizen in a digital polity? The cybersphere is a vast…
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Added by Rodanthi Tzanelli on June 13, 2013 at 10:45am — No Comments

Pepperdine Prof. on Obama Donations/IRS

Source: www.blogs.wsj.com

Date: 6/13/13

By: Jacob Gershman

IRS Attorneys Gave Heavily to Obama, Says Professor

AP

Internal Revenue Service attorneys who donated to President Barack…

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Added by FacultyRow Director on June 13, 2013 at 12:00am — No Comments

BREAKING: Professor Killed With Stiletto Heel

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 death of Dr. Stefan Andersson, a 59-year-old University of Houston professor.
Ana Lilia Trujillo appeared in court on Tuesday, June 11. Trujillo is charged with murder in the…
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Can I borrow That Robot? (Dan Christian)


Source: Learning Ecosystems



Date:     June 11, 2013



By:        Daniel Christian…


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Added by Daniel Christian on June 11, 2013 at 3:32pm — No Comments

BREAKING: Princeton U. Bomb Threat

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Date: 6/11/13

By: Pamela Engel 10:31AM EST

Princeton University Evacuated After Bomb Threat

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Added by FacultyRow Director on June 11, 2013 at 11:00am — No Comments

Drop-outs and Graduates Both Benefit

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…

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Added by Susan B. on June 11, 2013 at 10:32am — No Comments

The Financial Realities of Higher Education

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…

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Added by Susan B. on June 11, 2013 at 10:25am — No Comments

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