Insider: A Dropout Problem for Colleges
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The departure this week of Mohamed A. El-Erian from Harvard highlights the difficulties that universities face in retaining endowment chiefs.
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During lectures, they answer their cell phones, text message their friends and play games on their laptop computers. Are college students really that rude? Yes, says Delaney Kirk, a professor of management at Drake University in Des Moines. But, she adds, it's not their fault.
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Could computer game-inspired lesson plans help attract students to college computer science courses? Two researchers got a $147,000 National Science Foundation grant to find out.
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Authors Kalman Chany and Mark Kantrowitz join Michelle Singletary for a discussion about how to pay for college.
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Â· 'Alarming' misconceptions uncovered in surveyÂ· Tuition fees led to fall in university applications
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By Kevin Saylor  Site might help break o
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From iTunes U, which lets students take educational podcasts on the road; to the computational tools running on Xserves, which allow students to see and explore the structure, function, and behavior of molecules; to the Digital Academic Television Network, which delivers live TV via a network connection using QuickTime as a client), Macintosh computers, servers, and software help educators articulate the âWisconsin Idea.â Erasing completely the âborders of learning,â they depend on the Mac to let learning go onâfor students and teachers alikeâanywhere and at anytime.
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A small publisher of college textbooks plans to offer free electronic textbooks to students. The catch? Ads are inserted within the text.
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Â· Few institutions pass admission benchmarks Â· Russell Group blames low achievement at school
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Feature Consolidation runs and runs
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As unemployment rates dip below peak dot-com boom levels, companies are competing fiercely for the brightest new college grads.Google's strategy for hiring young talentGetting hired via social network
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The college application process can be long and tedious, rewarding or depressing, but always full of anticipation.
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Microsoft&#39;s decision to release a major upgrade for its flagship operating system in the same month that hundreds of thousands of students are reporting to college campuses across the nation is causing a major headache for some universities.
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Can digital musicians, artists and other media creators free themselves from the tyranny of popular software design? Commentary by Momus.
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WE often hear of difficulties graduates face in securing meaningful employment. And one of the reasons identified for this problem is the lack of interpersonal and communication skills among fresh graduates.
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Thereâs a growing sense of urgency among educators that  every student should be on a college track.
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The recording industry debuts a new carrot-and-stick approach for dealing with file-ripping students and the colleges and ISPs who know them. By Eliot Van Buskirk.