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Penn State installs RamSan-810 SSD appliance to save power, cooling, floor space and time
Texas Memory Systems, Inc., provider of The World's Fastest Storage®, today announced that the Research Computing and Cyber-infrastructure group(RCC) at Penn State University has implemented a RamSan-810 SSD system to dramatically reduce its nightly backup times while improving IOPS performance and minimizing related power, cooling and floor space costs.
New Partnership between Follett and Inkling Gives Students More Access to Interactive Digital Textbooks
This fall, students at colleges and universities with bookstores managed by Follett Higher Education Group will have another digital textbook option. Follett and Inkling Systems, Inc. today announced a partnership to offer Inkling's enhanced, interactive digital textbooks through the more than 900 college stores operated by Follett as well as online via efollett.com®.
Experian QAS launches a real-time data enhancement product
Experian® QAS®, a part of Experian Marketing Services and a leading provider of address verification software and services, today launched Prospect IQ, a data enhancement product that enables organizations to gain a deeper understanding of their consumers by allowing them to leverage Experian ConsumerView data and make effective business decisions in real time.
Turnitin Adds Voice Comments to GradeMark for Faster Grading and More Substantive Feedback on Student Writing
Turnitin, the global leader in originality checking and online grading, today announced the release of Voice Comments, a simple and efficient way for instructors to offer feedback on student writing.
Internal Trinity Report: 'Preppy-Looking White Males' Assaulted Student
Trinity College security officers reported to the administration within hours of the March assault of a student on the edge of campus that a witness had described the two male attackers as "preppy-looking white males'' accompanied by three females "believed to be of college age.''
Report: Florida State U Pres. Says Faculty Opposed To Joining 'Academically Weaker' Big 12
After a Florida State trustee chairman roasted the ACC's new TV deal this week by calling it "mind-boggling" and "shocking ," FSU president Eric Barron flatly denied his school's possible interest in joining the Big 12.
Georgian Court To Admit Men For First Time In A Century
One of the New Jersey's last remaining women's colleges is going coed.
Law Firm Charges U Of Wisconsin $43,700 For Two Chadima Investigations
A law firm charged UW-Madison about $43,700 to conduct two investigations into the actions of a UW-Madison athletic official who resigned amid a sexual assault allegation, according to invoices released to the State Journal on Tuesday.
NH Colleges Commit To Increasing High-Tech Grads
New Hampshire's community colleges and four-year campuses are working together to turn out more high-tech graduates, promising to double the number in the next 13 years.
Longwood University President Resigns For Health Reasons
Longwood University President Patrick Finnegan plans to step down because of health problems.

 

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Student Debt Levels Often Higher At State Schools Than Elite Private Colleges, Analysis Shows (Huffington Post)
A recent Reuters analysis of student debt at various highly-ranked universities revealed that state schools often leave graduates with greater levels of debt than they'd get by attending Ivy League universities. It all depends on what kind of financial aid programs the schools have to offer - and many state schools, feeling the public budget crunch that has swept the country in recent years, can't provide as much help to cash-strapped students. Tuition and fees at private schools four-year schools increased 28 percent in the last five years; meanwhile the in-state tuition at public schools soared 41 percent.
Higher education linked to longer life, CDC report shows (USA Today)
Education may not only improve a person's finances, it is also linked to better health habits and a longer life. For instance, people who have a bachelor's degree or higher live about nine years longer than those who don't graduate from high school, according to an annual report, out today, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. "Highly educated people tend to have healthier behaviors, avoid unhealthy ones and have more access to medical care when they need it," says the report's lead author.
Five years after death of Jerry Falwell Sr., growth booming at Liberty University (Lynchburg, Va. News and Advance)
In five years, the momentum left by Falwell Sr. has snowballed into rapid growth. The biggest gains come from LU Online, where enrollment has soared from 15,000 students in 2007 to 77,500 this month. Residential enrollment has grown by about 3,000 students to 12,560, about a 30 percent increase. The curriculum has swelled to more than 260 academic programs, including a film school that opened in January. In 2013, Liberty plans to admit its first class of medical students, perhaps the biggest academic milestone since the law school opened in 2004.
Backer of Common Core School Curriculum Is Chosen to Lead College Board (New York Times)
David Coleman, an architect of the common core curriculum standards that are being adopted in nearly all 50 states, will become the president of the College Board, starting in October. For the last year, Mr. Coleman, a former Rhodes scholar and McKinsey & Company consultant, has been barnstorming the nation, speaking to thousands of teachers to explain and promote the standards. He will succeed Gaston Caperton, who last year announced his plans to step down. Many leading education figures have endorsed the appointment.
College Ends Student Health Plan (Inside Higher Ed)
Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, announced Tuesday that it will discontinue its student health-insurance plan in the upcoming academic year rather than offer students a plan that would soon include free birth control. The college said the decision was driven by both financial and moral concerns, but it appears likely to become another point of contention in the ongoing debate about contraception, health insurance and religious institutions.
Playoff Politics (Inside Higher Ed)
For years, many fans, coaches and sportswriters have rallied for a playoff system to pick a national champion in big-time college football. As with so many discussions about college sports, the rhetoric and reality have often been at odds in the playoff debate. And while many details remain unclear about the structure of the burgeoning playoff system, most of the questions revolve not around academic issues but around the sharing of revenue and power.
Higher Education and Debt: Another Perspective - Opinion Piece (Huffington Post)
Lawrence M. Schall, president, Oglethorpe University, writes: In the New York Times' "A Generation Hobbled by Debt," the top of the fold color picture features Kelsey Griffith, age 23, in debt $120,000 from her college loans, now working two restaurant jobs. I don't quarrel with much in the article, except the proclivity to feature extreme cases like Kelsey's. She represents one in a hundred, but the story focuses on her and others like her. It makes for dramatic reading, I suppose, but I'd prefer to focus on the more typical student with a more typical debt burden. That story is compelling enough.
RIP you college flunk-out loser - Opinion Piece (Bangor, Maine, Daily News)
Those who blame the borrowers are being unfair. Colleges use bait and switch in offering the typical financial aid package that does not usually cover all the costs for the year and at the last minute, usually after the student has committed to that school, a shortfall appears requiring yet another loan. To make matters worse, many colleges do not guarantee the free aid, or college grants, for all four years so many students will find themselves way short in subsequent years and are forced to borrow more money to stay at that college.
Wofford College President Dunlap to retire in 2013 (Associated Press)
The president of Wofford College, Benjamin Dunlap, says he is going to retire at the end of the 2013 academic year. Dunlap has served as the 10th president of the Spartanburg, S.C., college since 2000. The former Rhodes Scholar, who earned a doctorate in English from Harvard, says he will return to the college as a humanities professor after taking a one-year sabbatical.
Focusing on the Total Quality Experience - Guest Post (Chronicle of Higher Education - Worldwise Blog)
Rankings privilege the most resource-intensive and expensive universities on the assumption that such universities offer the best panacea for success in the global economy and world science. I have argued many times, in these columns and elsewhere, of the importance of focusing on the capacity of "the system as a whole" rather than simply on the performance of a few elite institutions. I have posed the policy challenge in terms of promoting a "world class system" rather than "world class universities."
 

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