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Outside the Beltway Alex Massie asks regarding Maureen Dowd 8220Is it unkind to suggest that were she to hand her columns unsigned to the editor of a minor magazine at any of the nation8217s lesser provincial universities they would be deemed unpublishable8221 He then goes on to dissect Exhibits A and B. Fast Company Ivory towers no longer universities today drive the vitality of their communities says Penn president Amy Gutmann. Roland Piquepailles Technology Trends Several UK universities are teaming to develop an inexpensive all-in-one appliance for developing countries. In quot Burning wood to power fridges quot Nature reports that the SCORE project will use quotthermoacoustic technology to convert biomass fuels such as wood into energy to power Peter Zuras Two-Seventy-One Patent Blog Members of the Innovation Alliance including more than 100 signatories - sent a letter to key lawmakers in the US House of Representatives and US Senate to urge a more cautious and deliberate approach to patent reform. Members of the alliance include universities venture capital firms research
Report of an aaup special committee: hurricane katrina and new orleans universities
DocuTicker Report of an AAUP Special Committee Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans UniversitiesSource American Association of University Professors From press releaseIn a report released today the Special Committee on Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans Universities of the American Association of University Crush at top creates a new second tier
The Kept-Up Academic Library Call them second-tier colleges or call them the new Ivies . Twenty-five to 40 universities like Lehigh traditionally perceived as being a notch below the most elite have seen their cachet Sensible policies on university education
ScienceBlogs Now I have never studied at Harvard and all universities are somewhat silly in their planning but the release reproduced below the fold strikes me as one of the better proposals for undergraduate level tertiary education. It suggests that even science students might need to understand their world Jisc support for institutional repositories
Open Access News Tracey Caldwell Reaping the Rewards JISC Inform Spring 2007. Excerpt JISC is supporting institutions as they establish and develop digital repositories to host a wide range of online content. The UK is raising its research profile as universities increasingly showcase their research Kenya: saitoti says universities won't raise fees soon (allafrica.com)
The Government has allayed fears that there are immediate plans to make university education more expensive. Bush says rotc has a place on campus (ap via yahoo! news)
President Bush scolded colleges and universities that bar ROTC programs from their campuses. Plan to overhaul universities flunks (miami herald)
A consultant conceded her proposal to shift the focus of certain state universities to undergraduate studies almost exclusively is going nowhere after hearing more criticism of the idea at a symposium Tuesday. Yale president: chinese universities need cutting-edge faculty (people's daily)
Chinese universities need faculty members who are at the frontier of research in their academic fields President of Yale University Richard Levin said here Wednesday. State universities join to research automotive industry (bizjournals)
The University of Alabama Auburn University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham are partnering with four other Southeastern universities to provide research resources to automotive manufacturers and suppliers. Private universities grant 125 scholarships to expatriates (yemen times online)
SANAA May 15 Minister of Higher Education Saleh Ba Surrah said private universities in Yemen have granted 125 scholarships to Yemeni prominent expatriate students and additional 100 scholarships were provided by the government. Europe's universities demand greater autonomy and funding in declaration to education ministers (accounting education)
European universities will this week demand greater autonomy and increased funding in order to enable Europe to compete with the rest of the world. Budget: no surprises for universities (scoop.co.nz)
Todays Budget contains no surprises for universities with all the major initiatives affecting the eight institutions having been announced beforehand. 7 southern universities form auto group (ap via yahoo! finance)
In an initiative hitched to auto companies growing fond of the South seven universities in the region joined Wednesday to form an automotive research alliance. Southern universities teamed in automotive alliance (fox 10 mobile)
Associated Press - May 17 2007 714 AM ET In an initiative hitched to auto companies growing fond of the South seven universities in the region have joined in an automotive research Birmingham named best place to raise family state praised for ...
MSN MoneyCentral - UAB made the top 10 list for universities in the South that drive economic development because of its research and development community. The magazine also said UABs international reputation for research along with its clinical capabilities Southern miss president asking for 12 percent tuition hike
Picayune Item - All eight of Mississippis public universities are expected to present their tuition increase requests to the College Board during its monthly meeting Thursday. Board finance chairman Aubrey Patterson and Higher Education Commissioner Tom Meredith
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