Monday, October 18, 2010

News: Academic Freedom Verdict - Inside Higher Ed

News: Academic Freedom Verdict - Inside Higher Ed

Academic Freedom Verdict

Faculty panel at Illinois finds that university may have legitimate reasons to dismiss adjunct who sent anti-gay e-mail, but that his offending students is not one of them.

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The Next Student Health Problem?

Ramapo College bans potent and inexpensive alcoholic energy drinks, illustrating increasingly widespread concern about the beverages' popularity among students.

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The Thinking LMS

U. of Phoenix plans to 'hyper-personalize' learning experience for all 400,000 of its students by building an online learning platform that thinks.

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More Legal Risk for Canada's Universities

In finding that U. of Calgary wrongly punished students for their Facebook comments, court says universities are government actors.

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