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		<title>College-bound students flock to universities&#8217; mobile websites</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denny Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A surge in the percentage of recent high school graduates who use smart phones to research colleges and universities could turn campus web development on its head.]]></description>
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		<title>Free textbooks coming for five intro college courses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denny Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[College students in five of the most-attended courses in U.S. higher education soon will have free peer-reviewed textbooks available to them as a Rice University-based program looks to save students $90 million in book costs over the next five years.]]></description>
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		<title>For-profit colleges defend controversial recruitment practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denny Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education Management Corp., one of the nation’s largest operators of mostly online for-profit colleges, filed a legal defense Feb. 6 of its scrutinized compensation program for recruiters who were paid according to how many students they roped into classes and school loans.]]></description>
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		<title>As colleges obsess over rankings, students shrug</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eCampus News staff and wire reports</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baylor University]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When US News &#38; World Report debuted its list of "America's Best Colleges" nearly 30 years ago, the magazine hoped its college rankings would be a game-changer for students and families. But arguably, they've had a much bigger effect on colleges themselves.]]></description>
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		<title>Apple iBooks 2 license agreement gets icy reception in higher education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denny Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advocates for open-license textbooks in higher education, while largely unhappy with Apple’s iBooks 2 platform, say the technology behemoth has done a favor for their movement: Apple’s pricey, limiting approach to digital textbooks is in stark contrast to the textbook model that aims for low-cost or free college texts.]]></description>
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		<title>When college applicants plagiarize, Turnitin can spot them</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eCampus News staff and wire reports</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The student's admissions essay for Boston University's MBA program was about persevering in the business world. "I have worked for organizations in which the culture has been open and nurturing, and for others that have been elitist. In the latter case, arrogance becomes pervasive, straining external partnerships."]]></description>
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		<title>Online colleges &#8216;wage war&#8217; with student aid fraudsters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denny Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online programs at some colleges have stopped accepting student applications from states known as hotbeds for fraud rings that sign up students for courses, receive student loan payments, and disappear from the virtual classroom.]]></description>
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		<title>Colleges laud Google+ age restriction change, safety features</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denny Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Campus technology officials said they are more likely to create an official Google+ presence after the nascent social network announced Jan. 26 that the former Google+ age requirement of 18 has been lowered to 13.]]></description>
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		<title>Google to merge user data across more services</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eCampus News staff and wire reports</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google announced a plan Jan. 24 to link user data across its eMail, video, social-networking, and other services that it says will create a “beautifully simple and intuitive” user experience. But critics raised privacy concerns like those that helped kill the search giant’s Buzz social networking service.]]></description>
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		<title>State higher education spending sees big decline</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eCampus News staff and wire reports</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[State funding for higher education has declined because of a slow recovery from the recession and the end of federal stimulus money, according to a study released Monday.]]></description>
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