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Video
YouTube vs. Your Good NameA college can spend millions of dollars a year polishing
its image, but one well-placed viral video can undo all that effort.
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A game of tag called Humans vs. Zombies, played with Nerf dart guns, has raised controversy on some campuses — but it is played enthusiastically at Goucher College.
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Audio
'We're Always in Language'Michael Holquist, the 2007 president of the MLA, explains why the group's recent conference explored the role of humanities outside the academy.
Joe Sanchez, U. of Texas at Austin
Libraries in virtual worlds will join physical libraries.
Susan Gibbons, U. of Rochester
Library schools need to update their curricula.
Nick Baker, Williams College
Companies like Google will bring "new blood" to libraries.
Casey Bisson, Plymouth State U.
Libraries need to be more than community centers.
Jessamyn C. West, Librarian.net
Librarians are not very "change oriented" as a culture.
Sarah Kostelecky, Institute of American Indian Arts
Diversity is important to the library profession.
Char Booth, Ohio U.
There will always be a need for librarians.
Brian Mathews, Georgia Institute of Technology
There's too much "bandwagon jumping" with new technology.
Hear U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings talk about
the continuing impact of last year's report by her Commission on the
Future of Higher Education.
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Podcast
Tech Therapy
How to Be a Leader, Even If You're Not the BossAnn Kovalchick, the deputy chief information officer at Tulane University, talks with the tech therapists about the qualities that make a good leader in IT — and in higher education generally.
Interviews
What's Online Learning Really Like?After covering distance education for more than a decade, The Chronicle's Goldie Blumenstyk finally took the plunge and enrolled in an online course through the University of Phoenix. She shares tales from the cyber-classroom with Paul Fain, a Chronicle reporter.
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Slide Show
Furman U.'s Living Laboratory
Cliffs Cottage, Southern Living magazine's new
"showcase home" on the campus of Furman University, intends to teach
visitors what's possible in green residential building.
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When he started college, Ricky James already knew he wanted to
be a pasto — but he had to change his idea of what preparing for ministry
entailed.
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Matt Marston abandoned his earlier career ambitions to go to seminary. He explains how his college experience led him to change his mind, and what has happened since.
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View photos of lumberjacks and lumberjills at the 2008 Annual Spring Meet. (Photograph by Don Clark)
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Law students work with members of Chile's largest indigenous group, the Mapuche. (Related article)