March 2008 - Posts

• Patent Office Rejects Blackboard's E-Learning Patent in Preliminary Ruling

  It was unclear over the weekend how, if at all, the "nonfinal" decision might affect the outcome of the legal battle between Blackboard and its smaller Canadian rival, Desire2Learn Inc. Read More... Posted Mar 31 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Sale of Antioch College to Alumni Group Breaks Down, and Board Seeks New Offers

  The sale of Antioch College to an alumni group has fallen through, apparently because the group had not raised enough money. Read More... Posted Mar 31 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Faculty Groups' Joint Conference Focuses on Pay Issues and Diversity

  Two major unions for professors are putting an emphasis on diversity among faculty members and on achieving equitable pay and conditions for adjuncts. Read More... Posted Mar 31 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• 1 in 5 Students Remains Uninsured, Despite Colleges' Efforts

  Those most likely to be uninsured attended college part time or were from low-income or minority families, says a federal report. Read More... Posted Mar 31 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Librarians Duel over the Future of Producing Bibliographic Records

  A technology plan devised for the Library of Congress will endanger library scholarship by minimizing the amount of time librarians spend managing catalogs, says a report written on behalf of the library's professional employees. Read More... Posted Mar 31 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Education Department Issues Lender-of-Last-Resort Guidelines as More Banks Quit Federal Program

  Under the guidelines, if a student-loan emergency is declared, guarantee agencies would be assigned to help students find private lenders, or even to issue loans themselves. Read More... Posted Mar 28 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Journals Resist a Drug Company's Subpoenas, Citing the Threat to Peer Review

  Editors at medical journals that published articles about two controversial arthritis drugs said that responding to subpoenas from the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer could harm their editorial processes. A court has sided with two of the journals in the... Posted Mar 28 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• In Spat With Publisher, Scholarly Foundation Wins Right to Choose Content

  A federal judge's ruling will allow the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation to publish new articles instead of a "best of" compilation in the first issue of its journal this year. Disagreement over editorial content came after the organization... Posted Mar 28 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Students May Not Predict Well What College Is a Good 'Fit,' Study Suggests

  High-school students' judgments about what colleges are right for them do not seem to have much bearing on how they will perform where they end up, says a paper that was presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association... Posted Mar 28 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Students Want Limits on Credit-Card Marketing, Survey Finds

  A majority of students say colleges shouldn't give their personal information to credit-card companies or allow cards with unfair terms to be marketed on their campuses, says a new survey by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. Read More... Posted Mar 28 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• 'Gatekeeper' Courses Should Not Be Assigned to Part-Time Instructors, Research Suggests

  First-year college students are significantly more likely to drop out if their large introductory courses are taught by part-time adjuncts rather than full-time faculty members, according to the results of a study presented during a meeting of the American... Posted Mar 27 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Major Shifts in College Admissions Policies in Texas Had Unforeseen Consequences

  Researchers looking at the consequences of two major developments in Texas on black and Hispanic students in the past 12 years found no big increases in their enrollment at the state's flagship institutions. Read More... Posted Mar 27 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Researchers Seek Redesign of Government's Education-Data Systems

  To understand the effects of public policies, the Education Department should work with state agencies to track what happens to individual students, said members of a panel discussion at a meeting for educational researchers. Read More... Posted Mar 27 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• U. of California's New Chief Faces Big Challenges

  The consensus in California and beyond is that if anyone can fix the system's problems, it may well be Mark G. Yudof, who is expected to be confirmed as the California system’s new president today. Read More... Posted Mar 27 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• President of a College in the West Makes a Pitch to Investors in Manhattan

  Larry E. Penley, of Colorado State University, led a delegation to meet with investors who might be interested in the university's inventions and its strategies for putting them to work. Read More... Posted Mar 27 2008, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News