Romney would end Obama immigration policy

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney would end an Obama administration policy allowing some young illegal immigrants to stay in the country and work, though anyone already granted a reprieve from possible deportation wouldn’t see that permission revoked, the Associated Press reports. Romney told the Denver Post on Monday that people who are able to earn the two-year reprieves to stay and work wouldn’t be in danger of deportation if he is elected. His campaign later clarified that while Romney would honor permission to stay as granted under President Barack Obama, a Romney administration wouldn’t grant such permission. Obama announced in June that he would prevent deportation for some people brought to the United States illegally as children. Applicants must not have a serious criminal record and must meet other requirements, such as graduating from high school or serving in the U.S. military. At the time, Romney criticized Obama for circumventing Congress and changing the policy a few months before the presidential election…

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In novel move, NYC campus gets US patent officer

A new technology graduate school aimed at smoothing the path between research and entrepreneurship can boast a new distinction: the country’s first on-campus patent officer, officials announced Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. A U.S. Patent and Trademark Office staffer already is working at the Cornell NYC Tech applied sciences school’s temporary locale at Google’s Manhattan office, where the school is set to enroll its first class next year. The patent office has recently unveiled plans for satellite offices in places ranging from Detroit to California’s Silicon Valley. But the “innovation and outreach coordinator” at Cornell NYC Tech is a novel effort to help innovators on campus — and in the city at large — get advice on capitalizing on their ideas, Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank and patent office Director David Kappos said…

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California law will aid injured student athletes

California will become the first state to mandate financial protections for student athletes who suffer career-ending injuries in some of the state’s top college sports programs under a bill Gov. Jerry Brown announced signing Thursday, the Associated Press reports. SB1525 protects athletes at the four universities that receive more than $10 million annually in sports media revenue — the University of Southern California, UCLA, Berkeley and Stanford. They will have to give academic scholarships to students who lose their athletic scholarships if they are injured while playing their sport. They also will have to cover insurance deductibles and pay health care premiums for low-income athletes, among other provisions…

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Former Boston U. president John Silber dies

John Silber, the sharp-tongued, pugnacious public intellectual who transformed Boston University during a quarter-century as president and mounted an unsuccessful run for governor of Massachusetts, died Thursday. He was 86, the Associated Press reports. Silber died of kidney failure at his Brookline home, BU spokesman Colin Riley said. Silber took over BU, then a financially troubled commuter school of middling reputation, in 1971 and used his forceful — some said imperious — personality to remake it into a prominent national university…

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Regents OK $47.1M higher ed budget request

The Kansas Board of Regents approved a request Thursday to seek an additional $47.1 million in funding for higher education in 2013, the Associated Press reports. The vote comes as Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration is telling state agencies to prepare for tight budgets in the coming year, including requesting information on how state government would implement a 10 percent cut in spending. The increase would be on top of the $763 million in state revenues appropriated to the higher education system in the current fiscal year. Regents began working on the request this summer, originally receiving a list of priorities totaling $185 million for the 32-institution system. The request covers the fiscal year that begins July 1, 2013…

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Credit transfers from colleges made easier

A new agreement between the University of Southern Maine and Southern Maine Community College is making it easier for students to earn a bachelor’s degree in hospitality and tourism, the Associated Press reports. The two schools signed an agreement Monday that allows students who earn an associate’s degree in hospitality management at SMCC to transfer the credits seamlessly toward USM’s new tourism and hospitality program…

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Tenn. announces new college savings plan

Tennessee has a new college savings plan officials hope will help students afford a higher education, the Associated Press reports. Gov. Bill Haslam and several state officials announced the “TNStars College Savings 529 Program” on Tuesday. Under the program, Tennesseans who open accounts with at least $50 will receive a one-time $50 match from the state. Those who roll over their account balances from other 529 college savings plans, including the state’s prepaid plan, will get $100. The program also has other benefits, such as federal tax-free earnings if the money is used for higher education expenses…

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Harvard President speaks out after cheating scandal

Harvard President Drew Faust said Thursday that athletes should not be singled out for blame in what is believed to be the largest cheating scandal in the school’s history, the Associated Press reports. Nor are they being treated any differently in the investigation, she added.

“It is not about one student group,” Faust said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “It’s not confined to any one student group.”

In her first interview on the subject since the school revealed that as many as 125 students in a single class may have shared answers on a final exam, Faust said the “allegations go to the core of what is most valuable to us.” Harvard announced last month that it was investigating similarities in the answers that more than 100 students submitted on an open-book, take-home final. Federal privacy laws prohibit the school from identifying the students or even the class, but published reports have said the class is an upper-level government class called “Introduction to Congress,” and that several of the students are athletes……Read More

High-tech product announcements this fall

It’s high season for consumer electronics. Manufacturers of various gadgets are unveiling their holiday lineups, including Apple with its new iPhone on Wednesday. Add to that products surrounding a new version of Windows coming out next month, the Associated Press reports.

Here’s a recap of the announcements so far:

— Sept. 4: Microsoft Corp. releases the first major update to its server operating system since 2009, a prelude to releasing Windows 8 to consumers in October. Microsoft says Windows Server 2012 adds features that make it easier to manage large clusters of servers in data centers remotely.…Read More

HarperCollins reaches deal to lower eBook prices

A new and uncertain era of e-book prices has begun, the Associated Press reports. HarperCollins Publishers announced Tuesday that it has reached new price agreements with sellers that conform to a settlement with the Justice Department over allegations that five publishers and Apple colluded to set prices for eBooks. Such new works as Michael Chabon’s “Telegraph Avenue” now can be purchased on Amazon.com for $9.99, a price publishers and rival booksellers fear will give Amazon dominant control of the eMarket. Simon & Schuster and Hachette Book Group also settled, but as of Tuesday afternoon e-prices for such fall books from those publishers as Bob Woodward’s “The Price of Politics” and Tom Wolfe’s “Back to Blood” were selling for $14.99. A spokesman for Simon & Schuster declined comment, while Hachette issued a statement saying it was “engaged in productive discussions with eBook distribution agents.” Apple and two other publishers, Penguin Group (USA) and Macmillan, declined to settle and a trial is expected next June…

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