Lawsuits elsewhere in the nation have challenged the policy of offering in-state tuition to illegal immigrants, but no suit has argued that it is illegal simply to allow undocumented students to seek degrees, several immigration law experts said. Schools are not required to use immigration status as criteria for admission. They also do not have to report students who are in the country illegally. Read more at:
Teach for America, the program that recruits top college graduates to teach for two years in public schools that are difficult to staff, has experienced a year of prodigious growth and will place 3,700 new teachers this fall, up from 2,900 last year, a 28 percent increase. That growth was outpaced, however, by a surge in applications from college seniors. About 24,700 applied this spring to be teachers, up from 18,000 last year, a 37 percent increase. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/education/14teach.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
UC at Boulder Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson surveys his institution's highly liberal landscape with unease. A college that champions diversity, he believes, must think beyond courses in gay literature, Chicano studies and feminist theory. "We should also talk about intellectual diversity," he says. So over the next year, Mr. Peterson plans to raise $9 million to create an endowed chair for what is thought to be the nation's first Professor of Conservative Thought and Policy. Boulder is far from the only campus to recognize a leftward tilt to the ivory tower. Read more at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121062988605186401.html
Standing before more than 1,000 alumni and friends Saturday, University of Delaware President Patrick Harker announced a bold new agenda for the state's largest public university, the first step in a plan designed to stake a claim as one of the nation's best colleges. Few comments irk Harker more than hearing that UD is a "hidden gem" or a "best-kept secret." His proposals are designed to raise the school's image in the minds of students, parents, legislators, donors and businesses. Read more at:
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080511/NEWS03/805110363
Letters have gone to 5,000 applicants across the country who have at least initially been turned down for a Transportation Worker Identification Credential, an ID card meant to guard against acts of terrorism, agency officials said Monday. The letter gives an ominous warning from John M. Busch, a security administration official: “I have determined that you pose a security threat.” The officials also said they were sorry about the language, which they may change in the future, but had no intention of withdrawing letters already sent. Read more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/washington/13tsa.html?_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Washington University's approach highlights the problems with using campus crime statistics to compare the safety of schools nearly 10 years after Congress tightened loopholes in a law that requires colleges and universities to report statistics to the Department of Education and the public. Reporting methods vary from school to school. Victims don't have to file a report for the crime to be counted, and on some campuses, hundreds of staff, faculty and students may be responsible for reporting crime. Read more at:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/4CB8AEFD39FB479E86257445000E3E3A?OpenDocument
College and university administrators consider personal attention to be the most critical factor in retaining at risk students. But what role should technology play in the effort? While many consider technology-based interventions important to student retention, few seem to be using such solutions, and only 2 percent have any kind of early warning system in place to identify at risk students. Read more at: http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/62560/
Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors. Recently, university teachers have swapped student term papers for assignments to write entries for the free online encyclopedia. Writing for Wikipedia "seems like a much larger stage, more of a challenge," than a term paper, said professor Jon Beasley-Murray, who teaches Latin American literature at the University of British Columbia. As an experiment, last January Beasley-Murray promised his students a rare A+ grade if they got their projects for his literature course, called "Murder, Madness and Mayhem," accepted as a Wikipedia Featured Article." read more at:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ggMwxmMUWxgdo5nkNerkzU8biFAA
At the University of Chicago, where the student hangout is the library and a prize is awarded annually for undergraduate book collecting, officials announced Monday plans to build another tribute to the university's bookish character. A glass-domed, mostly underground library, to be built just west of the Joseph Regenstein Library, will have space for 3.5 million volumes, allowing the university to keep its entire collection on campus as other top academic libraries are building off-site facilities to store books. The new library comes as universities are digitizing their collections and moving books from overflowing stacks to off-campus storage sites. Read more at:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-uofclibrary-12-may12,0,6923002.story
ABC News, looking to bolster its connection with younger viewers, plans to open bureaus this autumn on the campuses of five universities across the United States, the network said on Wednesday. Students will report on local stories in multimedia news bureaus encompassing online and broadcast technology. Their work will be used on various ABC News outlets. While offering on-the-job training to aspiring journalists, ABC News said it would gain greater insights into the lives of the 33 million U.S. 18-to-25-year-olds. Read more at:
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSN0729755620080507
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