Universities to students, fans: Don’t recruit athletes via social media
Brigham Young University (BYU) last week became the latest school to plead with its students and supporters to avoid Twitter ... Read more
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March Madness online streaming taxes campus networks
If Marquette University students weren’t on spring break this week, the school’s IT officials would have faced an internet bandwidth nightmare.
Librarians: Many faculty members embrace digitization
The sentimentality that college faculty members have for the old-fashioned campus library isn’t the norm at some institutions with vast digital libraries, higher-education librarians and technologists say—countering recent…
Broadband grants include $63M for 100-gigabit research network
Colleges and universities will be among anchor institutions in an ultra high-speed nationwide internet network after President Obama announced July 2 more than $760 million in grants designed…
Open courseware as a viable business model?
Open courseware isn’t the end of higher education, as some have feared, but rather a recruiting tool that can lure people to enroll in credit-bearing classes, according to…