Wall Street Journal
August 7, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article on the recent attack on the two social networking sites, quotes Avi Rubin, a professor in the Whiting School of Engineering and technical director of the Information Security Institute.
New York Times (Associated Press)
August 7, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Adam Kaplin of the School of Medicine is quoted.
Baltimore Sun
August 7, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Mark Presnell, director of the Johns Hopkins University's career office, comments in this story about the challenge that college graduates face in finding employment.
Business Week
August 6, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This feature includes a comment from Riordan Roett, a professor at SAIS.
Smash Hits (India)
August 7, 2009
Johns Hopkings angle: This IANS piece, which also appeared in other online publications, reports that John Hopkins researchers, led by David Berman of the School of Medicine, have identified a powerful set of cells in bladder tumours that appears to be primarily responsible for the cancer's growth and spread.
El Paso Times
August 7, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Michael Repka, pediatric ophthalmologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, is quoted in this feature story.
Environmental Health News
August 7, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This piece reports on a JHU study that found that large piles of aging chicken manure used as fertilizer on farm crops can house bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics.
Argentina Star
August 7, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This IANS report, which also appeared in other online publication, notes that JHU scientists were involved in a research study that concluded that middle-aged smokers are 70 percent more likely to develop dementia than are those who don't smoke.
Health24.com
August 7, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: A Johns Hopkins team has identified two proteins that play a major role in reverting adult sperm cells back into stem cells. Erika Matunis of the School of Medicine was quoted.
Maryland Daily Record
August 7, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This brief mentions that Michelle Bravo, newly named director of diabetes education for the division of endocrinology at Mercy Medical Center, previously served as program coordinator for Johns Hopkins University Diabetes Center.
Lewiston Sun Journal (Maine)
August 7, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This editorial mentions Fouad Ajami of the School for Advanced International Studies.
Mansfield News-Journal (Ohio)
August 7, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Tim M. Berra, a professor at Ohio State University, wrote a book about Charles Darwin that was published by the JHU Press.
The Washington Post
August 7, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This obituary states that the electrical engineer helped designed missles for the Navy while working for the Applied Physics Laboratory.
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HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS
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August 6, 2009
Top officials at the University of Illinois developed a sophisticated shadow admissions process for applicants who were supported by politicians, donors and other prominent sponsors, a state commission concluded Thursday. In a scathing report, the commission said the state’s flagship university was in a “full-fledged crisis purely of its own making,” the result of a widespread culture of “cynicism and crass opportunism” that went back a decade or more, and that the overall scheme was “perhaps unparalleled among universities in its level of formality and structure.”
Inside Higher Ed
August 7, 2009
In 1980, Howard R. Bowen’s revenue theory of cost was put forth to explain the financial trends of higher education. The basic idea was that colleges and universities will spend everything they have, so if you increase their revenue, you should expect their costs to go up too, creating a spiral. It has now become apparent that American higher education has an insatiable appetite for more money; it is a black hole that cannot be filled.
Inside Higher Ed
August 7, 2009
For many students fresh out of college, the sense of possibility upon graduation is dampened by looming loan payments. But a new company hopes to change the way college grads repay their federal student loans, by easing the uncertainty about whether they'll be able to afford the monthly burden.
Chronicle of Higher Education
August 6, 2009
The 33 American universities that are seeking to raise at least $1-billion collected a total of $824.6-million in gifts and pledges during the last month for which they had data available. The campaign with the largest gain in the last month was Yale University, with $63.2 million.
Chronicle of Higher Education
August 6, 2009
The National Science Foundation told its board on Thursday that it was taking steps to fix management troubles but would not end its practice of relying heavily on university administrators to fill its leadership ranks. Leaders of the independent federal agency reported to their board seven months after admitting a series of instances in which employees were making regular use of their computers for unauthorized activities, including viewing pornography.
Inside Higher Ed
August 7, 2009
When the Chicago Tribune revealed in May that the University of Illinois had used a "clout" admissions system -- in which trustees and senior administrators pressured admissions officers on behalf of politically connected applicants -- the university insisted that its admissions system was fundamentally fair and running well. On Thursday, a special state panel created to investigate the allegations issued a report consistent with the newspaper's findings and raising questions about much of the university's initial statement playing down the articles.
Washington Post
August 6, 2009
Capitol College in Laurel will award full-tuition scholarships to 13 first-year students through the Capitol Scholars Program in the fall with a grant from the National Science Foundation. The scholarships target students who excel in science and technology. The program will provide the students' tuition for their first two years of study in the departments of engineering, computer science and engineering technology.
Inside Higher Ed
August 7, 2009
The U.S. Education Department on Thursday proposed new regulations to carry out changes that Congress made last year to federal law governing higher education accreditation.
Forbes
August 5, 2009
Colleges should focus on the contributions of graduates, not incoming students' credentials.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
August 7, 2009
Many of the nation’s colleges and universities are raising tuition for students this school year, and the economic recession is having an effect on several Minority-Serving Institutions.
Financial Express (India)
August 5, 2009
The churn caused by globalization has leapfrogged the developing countries ahead in one of the most unexpected areas—higher education. Most recent numbers show that the share of developing countries in total enrolment in higher education has gone up from 54.4% in 1970 to 72.4% in 2006. This is surprising as developing countries continue to lag both in wealth creation and trade, even though they account for 85% of world’s population.
Inside Higher Ed
August 7, 2009
TUI University inappropriately gave out an estimated $923,000 in financial aid funds to students who either were ineligible for the money or did not earn it because they withdrew from the institution, the U.S. Education Department's inspector general said in an audit released Thursday. The for-profit university was the online arm of Touro University until its sale to private equity investors in 2007.
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