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A POLITICAL FIRING at the University of Toledo….

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A POLITICAL FIRING at the University of Toledo.

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University Official Canned For Anti-Gay Column Is Now Suing The School

Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | yesterday

Back in May, the University of Toledo's head of human resources, Crystal Dixon, was fired from her job after she penned an anti-gay column in the Toledo Free Press which read in part: As a Black woman who happens to be an alumnus of the University of Toledo's Graduate School, an employee and business owner, I take great umbrage at the notion that those choosing the homosexual lifestyle...

Cambridge study challenges claims of Islamic extremism in British universities

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

British universities are not hotbeds of Islamic radicalism, despite fears about the rise of "campus extremism", a new study argues. The University of Cambridge research, based partly on in-depth interviews with 26 students at UK universities, found that most young British Muslims are opposed to political Islam and are more likely to join Amnesty International than al-Qaida. This...

End the NEP in the universities as the first step to restore a world-class university system

Lim Kit Siang (Free subscription) | yesterday

Malaysia is losing out in the unrelenting battle for international competitiveness among nations, with Malaysian universities even losing out to Southeast Asian universities in Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines and to universities in Africa and South America – something completely unthinkable in the first three decades of our nationhood. For the second consecutive year, Malaysia...

Tip Sheet: University of Virginia Experts on the Financial Crisis

Newswise (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008

BusinessWeek judges the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce to be in a "virtual dead heat" with University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School as the best undergraduate business school in the country. U.Va.'s separate graduate business school, the Darden School of Business, is also highly ranked. Together they have more than a dozen faculty who are regularly featured in...

My Ideal Technological University

Blogs for the NC State Community (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Through my development of a recent illness, I had an epiphany about what my ideal technological university would consist of. Because I have been sick, it has been so hard for me to get out of my dorm room to go to class. I think the university would be better if it had some system of videotaping or using a webcam in each of the classrooms for students to be able to view the class lecture....

Tree sitters, university in mediation

Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Protesters who have been sitting in trees at the University of California Santa Cruz for more than a year have agreed to a mediation of their grievances.Jennifer Charles of the Science Hill Tree Sitters announced Tuesday that members of the group and representatives of the university have been in discussions for the past week, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported.We've already had a few meetings,...

Why There is Plagiarism in China Even At Sun Yat-sen University

IP Dragon 知識產權龍 (Free subscription) | yesterday

Peter who is a Yale-China Teaching Fellow teaching English classes at Sun Yat-sen University and runs the China DTR blog, has a nice posting called 'Where's Your Academic Integrity' about widespread plagiarism in his class. " Plagiarism in our classroom was a surprise because at the beginning of the semester we explained why plagiarism was bad, the consequences of plagiarism such as getting...

Papyrological Institute at the University of Michigan 1 July- 31 July 2009

Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008

In July 2009, the Department of Classical Studies and the Graduate Library at the University of Michigan will host a Papyrological Institute for advanced graduate students and junior faculty in Ancient History, Classics, Egyptology, Byzantine Studies and related disciplines. The institute will include a combination of lectures and advanced coursework with first-hand experience working with ancient...

Columbia University's Sleazy Eminent Domain Abuse

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | yesterday

Jonathan V. Last has a great piece in The Weekly Standard detailing Columbia University's shady efforts to use eminent domain to expand its campus: [Nick] Sprayregen is one of Columbia's neighbors. He owns Tuck-It-Away Storage, a thriving self-storage business, which has five buildings in Manhattanville. He leases out the ground floors of some of his properties, but recently has had a hard time...

Education Ministry To Draft Tests To Assess Abilities Of Applicants To Study At Universities

Ukrainian News Agency - Agency news (Free subscription) | yesterday

The participants in the meeting agreed that the introduction of the test on abilities of applicants to study at universities will help raise efficiency of selection of students among applicants through the independent outside testing system and the transparency of entrance to universities.

College Student Starts University Football Program

SportsFilter (Free subscription) | yesterday

When Doug DeLuca enrolled as a freshman at the University of Vermont in the fall of 2006, the school hadn't fielded a football team since 1974. DeLuca changed all that by starting a club football team, raising $35,000 for equipment, negotiating a million-dollar insurance policy and finding 50 players, coaches, trainers, opponents and a place to play and practice. Now they're the school's official...

• Open Membership: One Student’s Drive to Resurrect Vermont Football - New York Times