Boston.com -- Massachusetts news:
The dean of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences said he will reduce the number of professors in an effort to balance a $110 million deficit. (Read More)
New York Times:
A report finds that universities often do not disclose faculty members’ conflicts of interest in government-financed studies.
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Information Literacy Weblog:
On October 26-27 we were happy to have a visit from Sophie Bury, from York University in Canada. Whilst she was here she gave a talk based on her research, for our Centre for Information Literacy Research: An Investigation of (Read More)
Design for India:
Design Thinking and Action in India and elsewhere.Prof. M P RanjanThe month of November 2009 seems to be the Design Thinking month with so many events and discussions taking place on the subject all around the world. It sure (Read More)
NY Post:
Pianist Suna Chung will give a faculty recital this afternoon. For more information, call 718-960-8247 or visit www.events.cuny.edu.... (Read More)
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian:
The Cherry award seeks out college teachers who, according to both students and fellow teachers, are especially good at making clear, forceful, inspiring, knowledge-rich classroom presentations that actually help students to (Read More)
ACRLog:
Among academic bloggers, yet another battle is raging in the PowerPoint wars.Margaret Soltan, English professor and the venerable curmudgeon of University Diaries, links to a student’s blog to show how PowerPoint enables and (Read More)
New York Times:
Yevgenia Shtilman, the daughter of Layna Hobbie of Plainview, N.Y., and Michael Shtilman of Jersey City, was married Saturday evening to Ralph Elliot Kleiner, a son of Lucy Kleiner and Mark Kleiner of Jamesville, N.Y. Rabbi N (Read More)
ACRLog:
Right now we’re in the midst of our busiest time in the semester for instruction at my library. I coordinate our information literacy program so instruction is always a big part of my job, but it looms even larger for me at t (Read More)
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian:
A University at Buffalo science professor has received a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the use of electronic audience-response devices in science classrooms.Clyde Herreid, co-director of UB’s National Ce (Read More)
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian:
Some Purdue University students have called for a faculty member to be fired after he posted comments online urging discussion on what he called the economic cost to society of homosexuality. Purdue officials said they would (Read More)
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Book Signing by Jennifer Kaplan - Greening Your Small Business Saturday, November 14, 1 p.m. Jennifer Kaplan Greening Your Small Business (Prentice Hall, $19.95) For companies too small to hire a consultant to i (Read More)
Boston.com -- Massachusetts news:
Opponents of an invitation for convicted terrorist Ray Luc Levasseur to speak at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst this week breathed a collective sigh of relief last Thursday, when organizers of a forum canceled his (Read More)
Boston.com -- Latest news:
A convicted domestic terrorist whose scheduled speech at the University of Massachusetts was canceled has been reinvited to campus by a faculty group against the objections of school administration.
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FT.com - Business education:
George Soros has helped support "further crucial development for the next five years" for young faculty at the business school. (Read More)
CNN:
Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, are crying foul about the millions of dollars in subsidies directed to the school's athletic department.
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CNN:
Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, are crying foul about the millions of dollars in subsidies directed to the school's athletic department.
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