Policy & Legal: Page 208

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    Three Publishers Sue Free-Textbook Company

    Boston start-up, Boundless Learning, denies its business is built on copyright infringement

    By Sean Griffey • April 5, 2012
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    Columbia trustee's column challenges notion that trustees should speak with one voice

    Open debate among trustees at private institutions is rare

    By Sean Griffey • April 3, 2012
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    Artificial Intelligence

    As AI continues its forward march in education and the workplace, colleges are grapplling with how best to incorporate the emerging technology into admissions, courrsework and elsewhere

    By Higher Ed Dive staff
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    Big Tuition Increases At U Of Florida, Florida State U May Get Delayed

    Difficulties in getting UF's computer systems ready for a tuition overhaul this fall may delay tuition hikes.

    By Sean Griffey • April 2, 2012
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    Company hopes to get alumni to provide private loans to students

    Social Financial makes private loans to current Stanford business students. 

    By Sean Griffey • April 2, 2012
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    Universities Track Athletes Online, Raising Legal Concerns

    The business plan of Varsity Monitor is simple. Major universities like North Carolina, Nebraska and Oklahoma pay $7,000 to $10,000 a year and Varsity Monitor keeps an online eye on their athletes.

    By Sean Griffey • April 1, 2012
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    Judge Backs Va. Tech Over Its 2007 Gunman Warning

    Virginia Tech received a measure of vindication for its handling of a 2007 campus massacre when a judge ruled that federal education officials were wrong to conclude the university's response to the tragedy violated federal law.

    By Sean Griffey • April 1, 2012
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    Retiring Education Department official looks back on 30 years of policy

    Daniel Madzelan, a senior Education Department official, retired recently after 33 years of helping shape federal education policy.

    By Sean Griffey • March 30, 2012
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    U Of Colorado Launches 'Accountability' Website With Information About Tuition, Salaries

    The University of Colorado on Thursday launched an online data center containing information about the school's finances and academic practices.

    By Sean Griffey • March 29, 2012
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    What's More Expensive Than College? Not Going to College

    There is a cost to not educating young people. The evidence is around us and all over the world.

    By Sean Griffey • March 28, 2012
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    ACT and College Board Tighten Security

    High-school students will soon have to upload photos of themselves when they register for ACT and SAT exams. 

    By Sean Griffey • March 28, 2012
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    Michigan President Blasts Governor's Budget Proposal

    As the state Legislature reviews Gov. Rick Snyder's budget proposal in Lansing, University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman lambasted it before a group of faculty members Monday afternoon.

    By Sean Griffey • March 26, 2012
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    Supreme Court declines appeal on religious groups at public university

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to the anti-bias rules used by San Diego State University to deny recognition to a Christian fraternity and sorority. 

    By Sean Griffey • March 20, 2012
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    Higher Education Funds Begin Slow Recovery

    As tax revenues have started to recover in many states, others around the country have made similar pushes for more money. Last year, only six states increased overall spending on colleges and universities.

    By Sean Griffey • March 19, 2012
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    U of I: State Funding Should at Least Stay Flat

    University of Illinois President Michael Hogan urged lawmakers this week to at least hold funding at current levels and fielded their questions about his tense relationship with some faculty.

    By Sean Griffey • March 13, 2012
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    Blended Learning: Adding Asynchronous Discussions to Your F2F Classrooms

    We have all done it: "participated" in a face-to-face discussion, nodding along in agreement, but not really present. Many of us have sat in discussions, afraid to throw in our two cents because we might sound silly. On other occasions, we have had a fantastic idea to share, but the ...

    By Eli Dickinson • March 2, 2012

  • The Republican candidate's record on higher education

     So far, the path Mitt Romney has set out for the Republican presidential nomination has not focused much on higher education. Although President Obama has promoted a push for college affordability as a plank of his 2012 re-election platform since January, education issues of all kinds --...

    By Sean Griffey • Feb. 29, 2012