Don’t Streak in Her Course
Three streakers picked the wrong class to interrupt on Thursday at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Voted Off the Island
The new University of Texas in the Rio Grande Valley, set to open in fall 2015, has lofty goals: expand access to comprehensive higher education in South Texas and become one of the biggest and most successful Hispanic-serving institutions in the country.
How many scholarly papers are on the Web? At least 114 million, professor finds
Lee Giles, a professor at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), has devoted a large portion of his career to developing search engines and digital libraries that make it easier for researchers to access scholarly articles.
How a new state website is helping students make college pay
People in powerful positions often have access to the best information.
Right to Know Why Not
Some 28 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, $1.4 million in research funding and strong evaluations along the way – but still no tenure.
The future of tech: Your local library
Want your own robot? All you need is a library card.
Picking up the pieces
It took 53 days for George Rammell to get back a sculpture he’d made caricaturing his university's president ...
Starbucks says 2,000 staffers apply for online college program
About 1,000 baristas, shift supervisors and other Starbucks workers are starting the program at Arizona State University this month, about two-thirds of them as juniors or seniors who will get full tuition reimbursement
Vanderbilt’s MOOCs enroll 600K students
Nearly 600,000 people have signed up for Vanderbilt University’s free, open-to-the-public online courses since the first offerings launched early last year.
Cornell Plans to Expand Off-Campus Engagement
Not just conducting laboratory experiments about water filtration, but building water filtration systems and installing them in towns that cannot afford to buy them.
