Will NYC’s College Building Boom Bubble Pop?

by University Business: Education News on July 29, 2010

Real estate development was the first casualty of the Great Recession, but a half-dozen New York City colleges are in the midst of an unprecedented building boom.

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UNLV Brainstorms Ways to Keep Staff Intact

by University Business: Education News on July 28, 2010

As UNLV copes with current budget cuts and the possibility of new cuts when the state Legislature meets again next year, the administration and the faculty worry: How can they keep women and minorities from being poached by other institutions?

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UCSD Effort Reaches Out to Compton

July 27, 2010

From the ashes of the “Compton Cookout,” an off-campus student party meant to mock Black History Month, a Compton reach-out has risen at UC San Diego.

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EFF wins enormous victory against DRM: legal to jailbreak iPhones, rip DVDs for mashup videos

July 26, 2010

From the Owning What’s Yours dept.:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation drove three deep wedges into the US prohibition on breaking DRM today. EFF had applied to the Copyright Office to grant exemptions permitting the cracking of DRM in three cases: fi…

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Texas Freshmen Need Vaccine before Moving in Dorms

July 26, 2010

Thousands of freshmen and new students flocking to Texas colleges for the start of classes next month must first get the vaccine against often fatal bacterial meningitis before they’ll be allowed to move into campus dorms.

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Mark Greenfield – Higher Ed Web Consulting – Links for 2010-07-24 [del.icio.us]

July 25, 2010

Department of Justice Aims To Make the Internet Accessible « Siouxsie Law
8 Useful Infographics on Twitter stats you can’t afford to miss !

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IPad Goes Under the Gauntlet at Universities This Fall

July 24, 2010

The iPad is about to have its academic chops put to the test this fall in a number of programs around the country. Colleges and universities are looking to adopt the iPad as a collaborative tool, a standardized mobile device to integrate into curriculu…

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Northeastern U Trying Unified Search

July 23, 2010

In the coming year, Boston’s Northeastern University will try a new search technology for its library collections.

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Auto manufacturers want to put brakes on Mass. right-to-repair law (Open Source Car Tech)

July 22, 2010

From the Buy Once, Get Reamed Everywhere dept.:
Mom-and-pop repair shops in Massachusetts are pushing a bill that would require auto manufacturers to provide, at a price, all the diagnostic and software information they make available to their dealers…

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Glaxo Tries a Linux Approach

July 22, 2010

From the New Ways of Doing Things dept.:
A decade ago, the Linux operating system helped spark a revolution in how software is developed. A move by GlaxoSmithKline PLC could test how well similar open-source principles work for developing new drugs.

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