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Monday, January 24, 2011

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1. The Sinking States, by Scott Jaschik - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/fCFyHE

"Thirty-two states reported declines in state support for higher education for the year, with drops ranging from 0.3 percent to 13.5 percent. Another 16 states saw gains, from 0.2 percent to 24.7 percent. (Two states saw no change.)"

2. For-Profit Colleges Open Another Front, by Doug Lederman - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/fu87wi

"On Friday, the colleges formally unveiled the third part of their strategy: asking the courts to block several of the administration's regulations. . . . The three disputed rules relate to state authorization of colleges, incentive compensation for recruiters, and misrepresentation of colleges' programs and results."

3. The Flaw of Overall Rankings, by Robert J. Sternberg - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/gRVSNd

‎"But such global assessments miss the qualities that make institutional differences, like individual differences, interesting. They actually can fool people into missing what is most important in distinguishing entities, whether individuals or institutions."

4. Would JFK Get Into Harvard Today? by Lynn O'Shaughnessy - http://t.co/xlRmA34

"I looked at the college application that JFK sent to Harvard in the 1930s, which the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum recently released. JFK’s college application was dreadful."

5. Public Universities Relying More on Tuition Than State Money, by Tamar Lewin - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/education/24tuition.html?_r=1&hpw

"But tuition bargains are fading as the nation’s public universities undergo a profound shift, accelerated by the recession. In most states, it is now tuition payments, not state appropriations, that cover most of the budget."

6. State Spending on Higher Education Edges Down, as Deficits Loom, by Eric Kelderman - http://chronicle.com/article/State-Spending-on-Colleges/126020/

‎"But the stimulus package, which allocated nearly $40-billion to states to prop up spending for public schools and higher education, will run out at the end of this fiscal year, leaving state and college leaders wondering how they will fill the budget gaps looming in more than two-thirds of the states. Nearly $9-billion of the federal stimulus money went directly to higher-education budgets from the 2009 to 2011 fiscal years, accounting for 4 percent of total state support for colleges during that period."

7. As the Web Goes Mobile, Colleges Fail to Keep Up, by Josh Keller - http://chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Search-for-Their/126016/

‎"Hand-held devices like smartphones and tablets are fast becoming the primary way many people use the Internet. Half of all college students used mobile gear to get on the Internet every day last year, compared with 10 percent of students in 2008, according to Educause, the educational-technology consortium. But many colleges still treat their mobile Web sites as low-stakes experiments."

8. These Kids are Better Than Yours: Tennessee School Requires iPads for All Students, by Nick Carbone - http://t.co/up2EWhw via @TIMENewsFeed

‎"The Webb School in Knoxville, Tenn. is looking to harness the power of Apple's latest gadget in the classroom. All students from 4th to 12th grades will be required – not suggested, or recommended, or even encouraged – but required to have an iPad. And if the price is too prohibitive, students can lease the device from the school."

9. Top 10 Most Loved Schools, by Katy Hopkins - US News and World Report: http://t.co/Oim1xqU

"Alumni school spirit can manifest itself in many ways—from sideline support at athletic events to networking with current students—but a more objective gauge of enthusiasm is the percent of graduates who give money back to their school."

10. An Ailing Mother Eases Her Daughter's Pain, and Conscience, by Sophia Gimenez - http://nyti.ms/h2pMPn

"Last month, the thrill of my acceptance to Knox College and Mills College was cut short by my mother’s diagnosis of multiple sclerosis."

11. University of Notre Dame: Reports on Experiment to Replace Texts with iPads - http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/notre-dame-u-reports-on-experiment-to-replace-textbooks-with-ipads/29192

"Mr. Angst’s class was the first of several at the university to replace traditional textbooks with iPads as part of a yearlong study by the university’s e-publishing working group into the use of e-readers. Many colleges and universities are in the midst of similar experiments, but Notre Dame is one of the first to report results from its effort.
The professor said students were more connected in and out of the classroom because of their use of the tablet device."

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