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University Business
Judge Sides With Georgia State U On Copyright Fight
A federal judge sided with Georgia State University on a range of copyright infringement claims filed by three publishing houses in a ruling that administrators said could set an important precedent for how educational data is used by schools. The order...
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Slashdot
Publishers Win On Only Five Claims In Copyright Case Against Georgia State
McGruber writes with news of a ruling in a copyright case brought against Georgia State by several publishers over the university's electronic reserve system: "The Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting that a federal judge has ruled in favor of Georg...
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KOAT
What the student loan rate hike means to you
For student borrowers, that pricey college education is going to cost a bit more next year. If Congress does not act, interest rates on federal student loans, which were temporarily held at a low 3.4%, will revert back to 6.8% for the 2012-2013 school ye...
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Ars Technica
Future U: The stubborn persistence of textbooks
Future U is a multipart series on the university of the 21st century. We will be investigating the possible future of the textbook, the technological development of libraries, how tech may change the role of the professor, and the future role of technolo...
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The Washington Post
Howard graduate caps a four-year fight for access
Britney Wilson graduated Saturday from Howard University in a flourish of collegiate honors: Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude. But none of them brought quite the same rush of pride as the shiny new handicapped door-opener that awaited her back at the resi...
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Deseret News
Dick Harmon: Universities shouldn't ban college football
Utah's Chaz Walker, center, celebrates with teammates after an overtime victory over Georgia Tech in the Sun Bowl NCAA college football game on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/El Paso Times, Victor Calzada) Is it true college footba...
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Times Newsweekly
SCHOOL’S OUT FOREVER
story and photos by Sam Goldman Members of the Panel for Educational Policy raise their hands to vote for the closure of one of 24 schools in total that the Department of Education will replace as part of a ‘turnaround’ model that will see the schools re...
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Business Wire
Georgia Higher Education Policies Hurt Blacks, Hispanics and Poor, Penn Study Finds
PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Georgia’s higher education policies are making it harder for black, Hispanic and poor Georgians to get a college education, according to a new report released by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for...
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Chronicle of Higher Education
Minority Students’ Higher-Education Performance Lags in Georgia
Policies in the Peach State are making it more difficult for Hispanic and African-American students to get into and complete college, concludes a study released on Thursday. In the last of five reports, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Gra...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution Blogs
Introducing the University of North Georgia
Here is the statement released today on the name change approved by the Board of Regents to reflect the consolidation of Gainesville State College and North Georgia College & State University. The board approved the name University of North Georgia f...
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WMAZ
New Name for Merged Schools: Middle Georgia State College
As New Name For Macon State/ Middle Georgia Consolidated Institution Middle Georgia State College will be the name of the new institution created by the consolidation of Macon State College and Middle Georgia College. In addition to approving the name ch...
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Atlanta Daily World
Newest Wells Fargo Mural Features Historic Images Of CAU, Morehouse, Spelman & MBC
Historic images of scenes and students at Clark Atlanta University and Morehouse, Spelman and Morris Brown colleges are featured in Wells Fargo’s indoor and outdoor mural unveiled Monday, April 30, at its West End University bank store. To commemorate th...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
David Brooks / The campus tsunami: Online education is the wave of the future, even at elite universities
May 7, 2012 12:07 am Share with others: Online education is not new. The University of Phoenix started its online degree program in 1989. Four million college students took at least one online class during the fall of 2007. But, over the past few months,...
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The Tennessean
Fisk leader must 'take it outside box'
Inside Fisk Universitys Jubilee Hall, an 1876 Victorian Gothic showstopper used for luncheons and study halls, senior Shayla Shane grips the dark wood railing to the staircase leading up to the second floor. She turned down an Ivy League school to soak u...
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The Tennessean
Next Fisk leader must 'take it outside box'
Inside Fisk Universitys Jubilee Hall, an 1876 Victorian Gothic showstopper used for luncheons and study halls, senior Shayla Shane grips the dark wood railing to the staircase leading up to the second floor. She turned down an Ivy League school to soak u...
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