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The October 2007 issue of University Business focuses on the "state of higher education." It features a collection of essays authored by higher education administrators from across the institution. Find it at:
http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=925
A university tells Connecticut students when to publish, a racial cartoon raises questions about decency, and a teenager criticizes a school administrators' decision to stop a music festival on her Web log.Free speech has come under the microscope after three incidents at schools across Connecticut. Some see students' rights on a slippery slope, while others believe lessons can be learned to improve dialogue among different groups of people. Read more at:
http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2007/10/30/news/294171.txt
Colorado College offers a kind of intense, hands-on learning that the typical college lecture course rarely has. But at Colorado College it is common because of an unusual, 35-year-old system of teaching. Typically, full-time college students take four or five courses simultaneously, over two or three terms per year. Colorado College is one of just a handful of places where students take one course at a time, giving it their full attention for 3 1/2 weeks. They'll spend most of the day in class or on extended field trips like this one. Then, after a long weekend, they move on to the next course. Read more at:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jKcXdiTsS80Q-njUhAXLIfiiGVnAD8SIFA8G0
Coffeehouses are springing up in high school libraries around the country, marking a big departure from the days when librarians sternly prohibited food, drinks and talking. Some health advocates wonder whether high school students really need any more caffeine, or the calories in that caramel mochaccino. But school officials say these coffee shops are promoting reading and studying by attracting teenagers who might not otherwise hang out in a library. Read more at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071030/ap_on_re_us/school_library_coffeehouses_1;_ylt=AnzX_Z_4_i2dijfbVR3tUko0Bk4B
The laptop may become the next textbook and the chat room a substitute classroom at local colleges as they boost enrollment in online programs. Distance learning is up by double-digit margins for most local schools over the late 1990s, when online learning programs began. Programs are expanding in both scope and reach: Some schools boast international students. Read more at:
http://crainsdetroit.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071029/SUB/310290021/1033/toc/-/-/more-are-studying-online
College semesters used to be simple: fall, spring and summer. Then came intermediate sessions, such as winter. And now, one public college is taking the trend to the limit: You can start your semester almost any week of the year. On Monday, Rio Salado College, part of Maricopa Community Colleges, began offering more start dates on hundreds of courses than any other public college in the nation, Rio Salado officials said. The college offers 50 start dates a year on 373 general-education courses. Read more at:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1029weeklycollege1029.html
Colleges and universities have done little over the last three years to improve information security. Hindered by lack of staff resources and funding, security efforts remain largely unchanged, while incidents of breaches--including the theft of personal information from within and without--continue to plague campuses. And, what's more, the integration of physical and IT security is still a reality in only a small minority of schools.For these reasons and more, higher education institutions received, on the whole, a C average in the 2007 CDW-G Higher Education IT Security Report Card. Read more at:
http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/52457/
In four years, tuition and fees have more than doubled at the University of Illinois. So has the number of employees who bring home big paychecks. In four years, the number of people working at the UI who earn $200,000 a year or more has climbed from about 40 people to more than 100. Public universities are competing against private universities for faculty and administrators. Two-year colleges are competing with four-year colleges. The competition for the top faculty results in higher salary offers. Read more at:
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/print/2007/10/28/going_rate_is_going_up/
Citing high attrition rates, Towson University says it will discontinue an unusual admissions program that was designed to attract male students by admitting applicants with lower grades but higher SAT scores. Launched in the fall of 2005, the experiment was designed in part to address concerns about declining enrollment of males, who make up 42 percent of the U.S. college population and 40 percent at Towson. But after two years of data showed that only about 70 percent of these students remained at Towson more than one year - compared with 84 percent to 88 percent of regularly admitted students - officials decided to scrap the initiative. Read more at:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_county/bal-te.md.towson25oct25,0,4265998.story?coll=bal_news_yahoo_head_1
At campuses across the nation, the number of clubs clamoring for space, funds, and student attention has ballooned during the past 10 years. Harvard now recognizes nearly 400 clubs, up from 240 a decade ago, while the number at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has doubled to 508 over that period. Dartmouth College has more than 200 groups, a 25 percent jump. Many students say the more clubs, the better, because joining gives them a chance to cultivate interests, beef up résumés, or connect socially to a smaller group on a large campus, but the proliferation has campus administrators a bit concerned. Read more at: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/10/27/join_the_club_colleges_see_surge_in_new_student_groups/
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