PUBLIC RELATIONS FOR PEER REVIEW The National Institutes of Health considers changing its policies to entice more senior scholars to evaluate grant applications.
TALES OF WESTERN ADVENTURE The rigid standards of hiring and tenure are all that stand in the way of humanities professors as thriving public scholars.
PEER REVIEW: The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study gets a permanent leader ... The University of California at Irvine's engineering school hires a climate expert as its new dean ... Bruce Shepard is the new president of Western Washington University ... A new chancellor steps in at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
HACKING BACK College students learn real-life lessons in Internet security when they go up against hackers in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.
GOLD MINES OF INFORMATION Vast education databases maintained by states can yield invaluable data, say education researchers, but concerns about privacy limit their development and use.
HACKING BACK College students learn real-life lessons in Internet security when they go up against hackers in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.
GOLD MINES OF INFORMATION Vast education databases maintained by states can yield invaluable data, say education researchers, but concerns about privacy limit their development and use.
LINKED IN WITH: Kelly Sutton, a founder of a student-run blog about improving lives through technology.
WHERE THE MONEY GOES: Students are paying a growing share of higher-education costs, but institutions are spending less money on them in the classroom, a report says.
WHERE THE MONEY GOES: Students are paying a growing share of higher-education costs, but institutions are spending less money on them in the classroom, a report says.
MOUNTAINS OF BLAME: Two administrators from West Virginia University have stepped down in the wake of a transcript scandal, but the president's job seems secure.
WHAT THEY THINK: Most college financial officers expect tuition increases to continue outpacing inflation.
Clocking on Fee-paying students want more teaching contact hours for their money. But do the bald figures on how often they see their tutor tell the whole story?
Journals test software to catch cheats Academic articles will, like student essays, be checked for plagiarism. Universities across the UK monitor students' work using Turnitin, a program that assesses the originality of assignments.Now a new program based on the same technology is being developed to apply similar high-tech scrutiny to research papers.
Engaging with students’ spirituality Students’ religious convictions need not hinder the learning environment; treated respectfully and inclusively, their presence may enhance the experience for all
Journals test software to catch cheats Academic articles will, like student essays, be checked for plagiarism. Universities across the UK monitor students' work using Turnitin, a program that assesses the originality of assignments.Now a new program based on the same technology is being developed to apply similar high-tech scrutiny to research papers.
Engaging with students’ spirituality Students’ religious convictions need not hinder the learning environment; treated respectfully and inclusively, their presence may enhance the experience for all
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