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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Jeffrey R. Young - Sep. 18 (News) - one weekend each month, a small group of computer programmers gathers at a residence here to build a homemade Internet—named Project Byzantium—that could go online if parts of the current global Internet becomes blocked by a repressive government.

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Balance Your Budget by Cleaning House - Do Your Job Better

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Michael J. Bugeja - May. 03 (Opinion) - As we approach the end of another academic term, some institutions are still living off of stimulus money that did little to inspire solutions to mammoth budget cuts looming for the 2012 academic year, which promises to be one of the most difficult in memory for higher education.

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Decoding the Value of Computer Science

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Kevin Carey - Nov. 22 (Comment) - Coding taught me the shape of logic, the value of brevity, and the attention to detail that debugging requires. I learned that a beautiful program with a single misplaced semicolon is like a sports car with one piston out of line. Both are dead machines, functionally indistinguishable from junk. I learned that you are good enough to build things that do what they are supposed to do, or you are not.

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A Modern Scholar's Ailments: Link Rot and Footnote Flight

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - Oct. 10 (Opinion) - Plenty of Web content is the information equivalent of a bag of potato chips, created to be consumed and forgotten. Not for scholars, though. Authors and journal editors link to Web-based resources in citations meant to last, but the phenomenon of "link rot"—when links, or URL's, stop working—can undermine the usefulness of those references. If a URL leads nowhere, another researcher might not be able to find the source material. In the case of, say, medical studies, a dead link could have deadly consequences, if a health-care provider can't locate information needed for a treatment plan.

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The Dream Act Is Dead, at Least for Now - Government

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:56:42 -0700

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We Must Stop the Avalanche of Low-Quality Research

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Mark Bauerlein, Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, Wayne Grody, Bill McKelvey, Stanley W. Trimble - Jun. 24 (Opinion) - the amount of redundant, inconsequential, and outright poor research has swelled in recent decades, filling countless pages in journals and monographs. Consider this tally from Science two decades ago: Only 45 percent of the articles published in the 4,500 top scientific journals were cited within the first five years after publication. In recent years, the figure seems to have dropped further. In a 2009 article in Online Information Review, Péter Jacsó found that 40.6 percent of the articles published in the top science and social-science journals (the figures do not include the humanities) were cited in the period 2002 to 2006.

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The Elephant in the Room: Curricular Glut

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Michael Bugeja - Mar. 28 (Opinion) - In our current recession, which has led to deep budget cuts, few public institutions are operating normally—except, perhaps, in an area that expands at the expense of faculty and staff members even in less straitened times: the curriculum.

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Final Student-Loan Bill Offers Aid to Colleges and Students

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Paul Basken - Mar. 19 (News Report) - Congressional Democrats and the Obama administration on Thursday outlined their final agreement on legislation to overhaul the government's student-loan system, with the savings providing annual inflation-adjusted increases in the Pell Grant and billions of dollars in additional aid for higher education.

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Stop the Presses! Revamped Journalism Courses Attract Students - Curriculum

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Katherine Mangan - Sep. 22 (News) - At a time when the newspaper industry is in free fall and thousands of jobs are being cut each year, one would think that the halls of the nation's journalism schools would be awfully quiet. Think again.

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Understanding How Tenure Decisions Are Made

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Michael Bugeja - Jul. 04 (Opinion) - Some negative promotion and tenure decisions seem predetermined the moment a newly hired scholar signs a job contract. Chalk it up to a bad institutional match: The job candidate chose the college for the wrong reasons, rejecting another that would have better suited his or her talents. Other negative decisions can be traced to institutional and research variables that many candidates overlook.

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Colleges Using Technology to Recruit Students Try to Hang On to the Conversation

Sat, 02 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Sara Lipka - May. 02 (Special Report) - With social media, anyone can chime in. Colleges that were once occupied with staying on message are warily opening up to the e-masses—and trying to get used to that.

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Progressive Patriotism

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Warren Goldstein - Nov. 17 (Comment) - I was listening to my local NPR station when the host asked, "Is there a new progressive patriotism in America?" Calls flooded in proclaiming a resounding Yes, and I began figuring out how to put an American flag on my front door.

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New-Media Scholars' Place in 'the Pool' Could Lead to Tenure

Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Andrea Foster - May. 30 (News Report) - Re:Poste, a Web application that encourages academics to pick apart online articles from the mass media, is only in its infancy. But the program has already generated buzz on a social-networking Web site called the Pool. "The way you have thought this through is impressive," writes Jon Ippolito in the Pool. He is an associate professor of new media at the University of Maine at Orono. Re:Poste is one of 600 creative works -- games, art, and more -- by new-media students and faculty members, most of them on the Orono campus, described in the Pool, which also contains about 2,000 reviews of those works. Starting in June, the Pool will have a much wider reach, as people in general will be invited to add material to the site, rate others' projects, build on their ideas, and find collaborators for their own projects. The Pool, as yet little known, could provide a new avenue for new-media scholars to do their jobs. Eventually it could play a role in their tenure and promotion as well.

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How Did Honor Evolve?

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - By David P. Barash - May. 21 (Special Report) - people are, at least on occasion, inclined to do things that are detrimental to their personal benefit so long as their actions are sufficiently beneficial to the larger social unit.

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Israeli History at 60

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Carlin Romano - May. 13 (Review) - No history of Israel's origins, however, can achieve definitive status for now. While Israel routinely declassifies much state material after 30 years, the Arab states that attacked Israel keep their archives comparatively closed. Rogan and Shlaim, writing in 2001, saw "no immediate prospect" for declassification of their key documents because "Arab scholars would find no support for critical revisions of their historiography." While the Israeli historian Anita Shapira has pointed out that Jordan opens its archives to a limited extent, materials that might resolve factual disputes -- such as the degree of sincerity or cynicism on the part of Arab leaders about Islamic jihadism -- are not available. Perhaps frustration fuels the hyper-aggression among Israeli historians.

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The Incomplete Revolution

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Bruce J. Schulman, Julian E. Zelizer - Mar. 18 (Opinion) - The reality of "conservative" America is that the federal government remains a large presence in American life. When disasters strike, we turn to government. When we retire, we turn to government. When we face external threats, we turn to government. Republicans failed to curb the growth of federal spending between 2001 and 2007, when they controlled the White House and both houses of Congress. In fact the Republican leadership developed new forms of government, ranging from the No Child Left Behind Act in education to a sweeping domestic-surveillance program. Notwithstanding the hawkish rhetoric flowing out of Washington, Americans are not flocking to volunteer for the war effort in Iraq. Public opinion of the president's military programs remains at historically low levels. With all the talk about the power of the religious right, popular culture is replete with the brash sexuality that conservatives have repeatedly decried. Such racy material is just as popular in the so-called red states as it is in the coastal cities of New York and Los Angeles.

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Fears for Democracy in India

Fri, 18 May 2007 21:12:22 -0700

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Martha C. Nussbaum - May. 18 (Opinion) - While Americans have focused on President Bush's "war on terror," Iraq, and the Middle East, democracy has been under siege in another part of the world. India -- the most populous of all democracies, and a country whose Constitution protects human rights even more comprehensively than our own -- has been in crisis. Until the spring of 2004, its parliamentary government was increasingly controlled by right-wing Hindu extremists who condoned and in some cases actively supported violence against minority groups, especially Muslims. What has been happening in India is a serious threat to the future of democracy in the world. The fact that it has yet to make it onto the radar screen of most Americans is evidence of the way in which terrorism and the war on Iraq have distracted us from events and issues of fundamental significance. If we really want to understand the impact of religious nationalism on democratic values, India currently provides a deeply troubling example, and one without which any understanding of the more general phenomenon is dangerously incomplete. It also provides an example of how democracy can survive the assault of religious extremism.

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