Past Coverage

• Colleges Try Out a Less Costly Competitor to Microsoft's 'Office' - February 12, 1999
• Change in Microsoft's Licensing Prices Attracts Some Colleges and Worries Others - April 19, 2002
• Microsoft Tries to See Academe's Future - August 5, 2005
• Frustrated Blackboard Customers Form Independent Users' Group - November 16, 2001
• Microsoft Tries to Answer Campus Critics With a New Pricing Plan for Its Software - September 4, 1998

Commentary

• Cases in Point: Intellectual-Property Agreements: Are You Managing Your Rights?

  In view of recent federal-court decisions, three lawyers urge colleges to carefully review two common methods of licensing the inventions of their faculty members.

• The City Where Diploma Dreams Go to Die

  Systemic high-school performance failure has elicited much hand-wringing. But there should be equal anguish, writes Kevin Carey, over breakdowns at the college level.

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  Why Liberal Arts Need Career Services

  Creative teaching and career planning are not mutually exclusive, writes Katharine S. Brooks.

Campus Viewpoint

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The University of South Carolina is home to more than 200 years of history and tradition, rising from a single building in 1805 on what would become the heart of the campus, the Horseshoe. The 11 buildings that now make up the Horseshoe frame a...