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Hall of Fame football player and actor Merlin Olsen has died after a long battle with cancer. Fellow broadcaster Dick Enberg described him as "the complete man."

The wife and daughter of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were injured Thursday in a highway accident, a spokesman for the senator from Nevada said. The injuries aren't considered life-threatening.

Three strong earthquakes rocked Chile this morning, just as the country was swearing in a new president.

A second former New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty in connection with police shootings of civilians on a bridge soon after Hurricane Katrina, officials said.

After reviewing the case of a woman who died at New Orleans, Louisiana's Memorial Hospital in the days after Hurricane Katrina, coroner Frank Minyard said Thursday that he cannot classify her death as a homicide.

03-11-2010

Ever since economists started trying to keep tabs on poverty, they've done so by measuring income....

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03-11-2010

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Congressional Democrats have begun private discussions on cutting down their $87-billion student-loan bill, largely accepting the political reality forced by new estimates of the legislation's cost and savings.

The talks began in recent days, after a new analysis last week by the Congressional Budget Office showed that President Obama's proposal to end...

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03-10-2010

In a case that sheds light on how bitter personal feuds can drive the actions of faculty members, a jury has ruled that an associate professor of sociology at Iowa State University brought false charges of gender discrimination against two colleagues he had viewed as obstacles to his gaining tenure.

The verdict, issued late last week, came in a lawsuit filed by the two other faculty members in an Iowa district court. The jury held that the associate professor, Daniel A. Krier, had...

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03-10-2010

Days after Virginia's attorney general ignited a controversy by telling public colleges and universities they had no authority to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, the state's governor issued an executive directive on Wednesday advising all state employees that employment discrimination is prohibited under state and federal law.

In a letter last week, the attorney general, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, a Republican, advised the state's public universities and colleges that...

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03-10-2010

Eight Chronicle reporters and editors won awards on Wednesday from the Education Writers Association for articles published in 2009. The prizes recognized their work on two large projects, one on the life of adjunct professors and the other on the rise of Asian higher education at a time of retrenchment in the United States.

The latter project, "Asia Rising/America Falling," received first prize for a...

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03-10-2010

Bill Tomlinson, author of Greening Through IT, discusses with the Tech Therapists the ways...

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03-07-2010

"Camera shy" is not the first phrase that comes to my mind for Siva Vaidhyanathan. The University of Virginia faculty member commands healthy fees for his lively presentations on media studies and law at conferences, and he has even appeared on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. But he's not sure if he should record his lectures—or if he does, whether he should share them freely online.

An associate professor who focuses on digital media, Mr. Vaidhyanathan regularly...

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02-28-2010

A million dollars a year is a lot of money, yet colleges can hand over that much or more every year to software companies that supply and maintain essential systems for accounting, human resources, and student enrollment. Now, fed up with the fees, some colleges are ditching giant vendors for a small company that promises to support this software at half the price.

But a deal that sounds too good to be true may turn out to be just that.

Cost-conscious colleges are caught in...

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02-24-2010

Scott Carlson and Warren Arbogast discuss the impulse to cut in tough times—and the need to plan for growth.

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InCommon recently kicked off IAM Online, a new monthly series delivering interactive education on Identity and Access Management (IAM). The next session in the series is March 11 at 1:00 p.m. (ET). This session will explore the general challenges of provisioning remote users and the specific impact of HEOA regulatory requirements that ask accrediting organizations to evaluate college identity procedures for distance education students. IAM Online is sponsored by InCommon in cooperation with Internet2 and the EDUCAUSE Identity and Access Management Working Group.

E-readers are portable, low-power, high-resolution devices that display digital versions of written material from books, magazines, newspapers, and other printed sources. They typically use e-ink, a display technology designed to simulate printed paper that offers similar resolution as newsprint and, relative to an LCD screen, eliminates glare and reduces eyestrain. Digital texts can be updated easily and often include advanced features such as annotation, hyperlinking, cross-linking, saved views, interactive quizzes for individual study, analyses, and shared commentary.

In early March, EDUCAUSE, The American Library Association (ALA), and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), as part of a broad group of eleven library and higher education-related institutions and organizations, sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski in support of preserving an open Internet. 

The letter's signatories urge the adoption of Internet (net) neutrality principles including non-discrimination and transparency, while allowing for reasonable practices to manage technical issues such as congestion and spam. These principles would give ISPs simple ground rules, and guarantee that private network operators and end users remain free to use Internet access as they see fit.

For more information, view the press release and read the letter.

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Two summer Campus Architecture Middleware Planning (CAMP) workshops in Raleigh, North Carolina, are now open for registration: CAMP: Exploring and Supporting Federated Access, June 21–23, and Advanced CAMP: The Second Identity Services Summit, June 23–25. Participants will have the opportunity to network with like-minded colleagues and learn more about access and identity management issues in an intimate environment.

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"RV 231 >Put on your calendars March 11, 4-6 p.m., Banks Recital Hall in the Burd Center for a reception honoring Dr. Sara Jane Brayman, who has retired as chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy. We will celebrate her contributions to her profession, to be sure, but more important, her contribution to Brenau."

"RV 229 >Brenau Golden Tigers athletes scored a lot of points in their various intercollegiate pursuits, but they also do pretty well individually in another venue: the classroom. The average grade point average for Tigers athletes in the fall semester was 3.17 with a cumulative GPA of 3.15. To see how the individuals performed in various national and league scholar-athlete recognitions, <a href="http://intranet.brenau.edu/pr/update/TIGERACADEMICS.pdf" target="_blank">click here. </a> "

"RV 228 >In honor of our Liberal Education focus, Women''s History Month (or more to the point, Women''s "Making History" Month), and Brenau''s Sustainability movement for this current academic year, please mark your calendars for March 12, 12:30 p.m., Thurmond-McRae lecture hall on the Gainesville campus, for the first of four talks scheduled this month. All scheduled talks are intended to address two or more of the Four Portals. The first, by guest lecturer Barbara Shadomy, owner of Atlanta''s Stonehurst Place B&B, is entitled "Building a Green Business: Grass Roots and Guerilla Strategies." Stonehurst Place - also known as the Hinman House -is a historic property in midtown Atlanta that Shadomy converted into an Earthcraft-certified bed and breakfast. Shadomy will address a host of topics, including interior design for a historic property, "green" design, and strategic business practices for establishing and promoting a small business built with big ideas. <br> <br> "

"RV 227 >WomenSource and Junior League of Gainesville-Hall County will present a screening of the HBO motion picture, "Iron Jawed Angels" on Monday, March 8, in Hosch Theater at the Burd Center on the Gainesville campus. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and the movie begins at 6:30 p.m. The 2004 HBO movie tells the story of Alice Paul, the leader of the women''s suffrage movement, and stars Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Julia Ormond and Anjelica Huston, who won a Golden Globe for her role. According to the sponsors, "every woman of voting age should see this movie." Katja von Garnier´s film tells the remarkable and little-known story of a group of passionate and dynamic young women, led by Paul (Swank) and her friend Lucy Burns (Frances O''Connor), who put their lives on the line to fight for American women''s right to vote. This true story has startling parallels to today, as the young activists struggle with issues such as the challenges of protesting a popular president during wartime and the perennial balancing act between love and career. There is no rating, but the film is more suitable for adults and mature teenagers. <br> "

"RV 226 >The Athletic Department's March newsletter is now available online. The read it now, <a href="http://intranet.brenau.edu/pr/update/AthleticDeptNewsletter2010March.pdf" target="_blank">click here. </a> "