Archive for July, 2009
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Can Removing Computers From Classrooms Improve Teaching?
This week’s College 2.0 column explores a proposal by a dean at Southern Methodist University who is taking computers out of classrooms in an effort to improve teaching.
The dean, José A. Bowen, wants to discourage professors from using PowerPoint because they often lean on the slide-display program as [...]
Virtual Medical Training Comes to Second Life
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Virtual Medical Training Comes to Second Life
Students have graduated, earned law credit, and held debates on Second Life. Now some universities are using the virtual world to train nurses.
Virtual medical training is nothing new — medical students have used CD-ROM’s and other interactive programs to practice diagnosis for years. And MyCaseSpace, a virtual medical-training program [...]
Students May Not Be as Software-Savvy as They Think, Study Says
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Students May Not Be as Software-Savvy as They Think, Study Says
When it comes to basic computer applications, even members of the millennial generation may not know as much as they think they do.
A study by North Carolina Central University found that most students overestimated their skill levels when they were asked how they perceived their [...]
Union of Postdoctoral Associates and Fellows Is Certified at Rutgers U.
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Union of Postdoctoral Associates and Fellows Is Certified at Rutgers U.
A union for postdoctoral associates and fellows at Rutgers University recently got the stamp of approval it needed to begin negotiating a contract with the institution.
The New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission certified the vote of almost 350 people who make up the third [...]
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Is Arrested at His Own Home by Police Investigating a Break-In
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Henry Louis Gates Jr. Is Arrested at His Own Home by Police Investigating a Break-In
Henry Louis Gates Jr., a prominent scholar in black studies and the director of Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, was arrested at his own home in Cambridge, Mass., last week by police officers investigating a [...]
Elsevier Says It Will Bring Web-Based Tools to Research Articles
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Elsevier Says It Will Bring Web-Based Tools to Research Articles
The scientific journal of the future has arrived! Perhaps.
Elsevier, the world’s largest publisher of medical and scientific literature, announced today that its Cell Press division had begun an “Article of the Future” project in which its online presentations will take fuller advantage of Web-based technologies.
That means [...]
Former Medical Dean at U. of Florida Quits Faculty Post in $517,000 Settlement
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Former Medical Dean at U. of Florida Quits Faculty Post in $517,000 Settlement
A former dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine, who was threatened with dismissal a few months ago for allegedly sending anonymous e-mail blasting the university, has agreed to resign as part of a $517,000 settlement with the university, The Gainesville [...]
White House Names Leader of HBCU Initiative
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009White House Names Leader of HBCU Initiative
Washington — John Silvanus Wilson Jr., an associate professor of higher-education administration at George Washington University, has been named executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. In the job, he will work with a presidentially appointed Board of Advisers and act as a [...]
Greensboro College Forced to Use Its Campus as Loan Collateral
Sunday, July 19th, 2009Greensboro College Forced to Use Its Campus as Loan Collateral
The financial pressures on Greensboro College, in North Carolina, continue to mount. On Friday, the News & Record, a local newspaper, reported that the college is now about $19-million in debt and has put up its campus and most of its endowment as collateral with Bank [...]
College Libraries Team Up With Their Local Counterparts
Saturday, July 18th, 2009College Libraries Team Up With Their Local Counterparts
Even though it’s the big colleges that typically have the largest budgets and facilities, several universities are teaming up with their local public libraries to bring better service to patrons. At the American Library Association’s annual conference this week, a session titled “Our Town, Common Ground” highlighted some [...]