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This Week in Higher Ed: Oct. 15, 2014

No referee off the field for FSU football players A New York Times investigation published Friday revealed a pattern of action by Tallahassee, Fla.  police designed to protect Florida State University football players accused of crimes. The most prominent of the cases involves star quarterback Jameis ...


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After dip, study abroad participation sees uptick

After several years of significant decline, the number of students studying abroad has rebounded modestly over the past two years. From 2007-08 to 2012-13, the number of students studying abroad during the academic year fell from a high of 565 to a low of 381 ­— a 33 percent drop over five years, ...


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Alternative to Common App sees surge in use

As deadlines approach for many higher education institutions’ early admission programs, more elite universities have decided to allow applicants to use either the Common Application or an online alternative following widespread technical problems last year for the Common App. But the University has ...


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Interdisciplinary panel critiques Ebola response

“Staff, stuff and systems” are the keys to remedying the recent Ebola outbreak, said Sheena Wood ’13, a strategist for the nongovernmental organization Partners in Health, at a teach-in about the disease Thursday evening. The roadblock to the remedy, she added, lies in the fact that most Ebola ...


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UCS committee seeks outreach and communication

Following its founding last year, the Outreach and Advocacy Committee of the Undergraduate Council of Students has established a plan for the semester, which will include facilitating student groups’ communications with administrators, prioritizing those groups’ needs and continuing to pursue last ...


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Student-run businesses create alternative campus jobs

When most students begin the search for on-campus jobs, they head to the libraries or dining halls. But some select students follow their entrepreneurial spirit, juggling small businesses and full courseloads. By setting up service-based businesses, students can work according to their own schedule ...


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Divest Coal expands goals under new name

One year after the Corporation decided not to divest the University’s endowment from the country’s 15 biggest coal companies, the Brown Divest Coal Campaign is redoubling its efforts, changing its name to Fossil Free Brown and altering its mission to divesting from the top 200 fossil fuel companies ...


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Lecture addresses global human rights emergencies

Though several of the world’s current human rights crises can be attributed to several potentially valid explanations, “a big part of the problem has been a seeming pragmatism that Obama has sometimes been championed for, but has too often degenerated into a short-sightedness that has repeatedly ...


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This Week in Higher Ed: Oct. 9, 2014

Princeton ditches grade deflation policy Princeton’s faculty voted to repeal the university’s controversial grade deflation policy after sustained criticism of its effectiveness, the Daily Princetonian reported Monday. Administrators implemented the policy 10 years ago to combat what they saw ...


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Tools for student groups to undergo upgrades

The University will replace the online student group platform MyGroups with a more efficient software in January, said Timothy Shiner, director of student activities and the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, at the Undergraduate Council of Students general body meeting Wednesday night. Undergraduate ...


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External review prompts budgeting process reform

After an external review of the administrative structure last spring found widespread dissatisfaction among faculty, staff and departmental agencies, the Office of the President has launched new initiatives to rethink the structure of the budgeting process to advance the goals of President Christina’s ...


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Faculty, Paxson discuss response to Ray Kelly report

Faculty members and administrators debated the University’s response to the Reports on the Events of October 29 at Tuesday’s faculty meeting. Attendees also discussed the University’s fiscal performance, the renaming of the Watson Institute for International Studies and a possible new classification ...


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Students establish Black Ivy Coalition

Responding to the recent deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Ezell Ford at the hands of police, student activists on Ivy League campuses have mobilized to coordinate a response. Armani Madison ’16, president of Brown’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter, and ...


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Former Chilean president forecasts economic growth

“We are closing a political, economic and social cycle in Latin America, and therefore, we are about to begin a new way of looking at things,” said former Chilean President and Professor-at-Large Ricardo Lagos in a lecture Tuesday night entitled “Quo Vadis, Latin America? What Lies Ahead for the ...


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Code of conduct review slated for spring

The University is preparing for its regular review of the Code of Student Conduct next semester in the context of a sharp increase in the number of code violations from the 2012-2013 academic year to the 2013-2014 academic year, according to the community report released last month by the Office of ...



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