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Colleges encourage the use of cellphones for emergency-alert purposes, but professors have begun to worry that students can resort to their phones during exams to cheat off the Web. (Photograph from Punch stock)

Tech Therapy: Libraries vs. IT Departments

Librarians and information-technology staff might share more similarities than they would like to admit. Tech Therapy's hosts talk about the rift between the two groups.

Why a Small Liberal-Arts College Offers Online Courses

Dueling Campus Bus Tours Promote E-Mail Services

2 New Digital Models Promise Academic Publishing for Profit

Educators Seek a Digital Upgrade for Teaching Law

LINKED IN WITH: Ed L. Schrader, president of Brenau University, a small liberal-arts college that has decided to offer online courses.

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Educause Releases Report on IT Trends
The 104-page report examines staffing, budgetary, and organizational issues, along with topics like networking, IT security, and faculty and student computing.

Could Google Have the Solution to All Those Inappropriate Student E-Mails?
Google's new tool is named after "beer goggles," the slang term college students use to describe how inebriation can make a potential mate seem attractive.

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