When knowledge isn’t written, does it still count?
“MAKING fun of Wikipedia is so 2007,” a French journalist said recently to Sue Gardner, the executive director of the foundation that runs the Wikipedia project, reports the…
New York Times
F.B.I. investigates assaults near Michigan campus
The F.B.I. has joined with area police departments to investigate six assaults on young women, including two rapes, near the University of Michigan campus during the past two…
Colleges join plan for faster computer networks
A coalition of 28 American universities is throwing its weight behind a plan to build ultra-high-speed computer networks--with internet service several hundred times faster than what is now…
eBook revolution upends a publishing course
For decades, even after it was renamed and relocated from its original home at Radcliffe, the Columbia Publishing Course seemed unchanging, a genteel summer tradition in the book…
Law school economics: Ka-ching!
With apologies to show business, there’s no business like the business of law school, says the New York Times.
California cuts weigh heavily on its colleges
The doors to the state’s newest medical school are already open, technically. A gleaming building with new labs is ready to house researchers and students. But when the…
Tough calculus as technical schools face deep cuts
Despite a competitive economy in which success increasingly depends on obtaining a college degree, one in four students in this country does not even finish high school in…
Court overturns Michigan affirmative-action ban
A federal appeals court on Friday struck down Michigan’s 2006 ban on the consideration of race and gender in public-university admissions and government hiring in the latest round…
What’s the most expensive college? The least? Education Dept. puts it all online
Students and families can compare colleges’ tuitions, the pace at which they are rising and the net cost of attending each college on a new Web site the…
Dutch lawmakers adopt net neutrality law
The Netherlands on Wednesday became the first country in Europe, and only the second in the world, to enshrine the concept of network neutrality into national law by…