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Publishing
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The Unfriendliest Cut of All
Oxford University Press goes negative for its word of the year.
Academic Freedom
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Nebraska Regents, Just Barely, Endorse Research on Embryonic Stem Cells
A proposal that the university system observe limits on stem-cell studies imposed by the Bush administration fails on a tie vote.
For Profit Education
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Understanding the 'Public' in Public Relations
Ignored or underappreciated, a college's neighbors can create needless headaches for PR officers.
Leadership & Governance
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In Debt and Undead
People who amass student-loan debt by attending anything other than a community college are doomed to wander the earth as zombies, asserts a new cartoon short.
Legal
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Lincoln U. Requires Its Students to Step on the Scale
Freshmen who have a body-mass index above 30 must pass a physical-fitness course before graduating from the university, in Pennsylvania. Some say that's unfair.
Teaching
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5 Things Professors Don't Know, Part 3
What Gina Barreca's students think profs need to hear: "You should not be having more sex than I am. If you are, I'm begging you -- please keep the details to yourself."
Technology
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Friends and Colleagues Search for a Missing Scholar, Philip Agre
The associate professor of information sciences stopped showing up at the UCLA campus, and now other scholars are seeking him via Twitter and Facebook.
Finance
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Universities Add Their Own Search of Google Books
Colleges working with Google on its effort to scan millions of library books have unveiled their own search tool to comb the full text of those volumes.
Government
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Georgia's Bulldog Dies. Again.
Uga VII served as the University of Georgia's mascot for only 15 months.
Distance Education
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Second Life Duty Is Now Required for Penn State's Online Advisers
Plenty of colleges have a presence in Second Life. Pennsylvania State University is taking that a step further, requiring academic advisers at its online campus to be...
