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3/25/11
TechNews for the week: March 25; March 23; March 21;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Gadhafi forces assault rebel stronghold after ceasefire; Gaddafi’s forces dig into populated areas; French jet destroys Libyan plane;
US is finding it hard to pass off lead role on Libya to others;
Defections plague Yemeni leader; US sees fragile counterterrorism ally fading; Yemeni Leader Offers to hand power to "Safe Hands";
Syrians hold demos as media banned from key city; Troops Open Fire on Protesters; Govt Backers, Police Attack Jordan Protesters;
Syria deploys troops after protests; Crackdown in Bahrain;
Civilian deaths? Der Spiegel publishes photos of U.S. soldiers posing with dead Afghan civilian;
Debt-stressed Portugal seeks political consensus amid deepening financial crisis;
States weigh reductions in unemployment benefits; PROMISES, PROMISES: Early retirement credit for Guard, Reserves doesn’t apply to all;
Ind. prosecutor suggested fake attack on Wis. gov.;
Wisconsin GOP Seeks E-Mails; of a Professor Who Criticized the Governor; Professor responds;
Protesters Erupt As New Hampshire GOPers Move Anti-Union Bill That Goes Farther Than Walker's;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web design issues
Other news
Trying to save the Internet from a corporate takeover; Google may face antitrust probes in Ohio, Wisconsin;
Senators Want to Stop Drunk-Driving Checkpoint Apps;
Finance and Economics
Cost of living hits record, passes pre-crisis high; 2011 Job Forcast; Costa Mesa, Calif plans to lay off nearly half its employees;
Feds: IBM bribed South Korea, China officials; AT&T to acquire T-Mobile USA for $39 billion;
Japan Disaster Highlights Weaknesses In "Just In Time" Manufacturing;
Education:
Study: Many Cheaters Are Overly Optimistic About Their Academic Ability;
Governors Say Colleges Should Serve the Job Market; Arkansas Leaders Lay Out 16 Goals for Improving Higher Education in State;
‘U.S. News’ Cites Data Errors in Pulling Engineering-School Rankings; New Draft of ABA Standards Is Tougher on Job Placement;
Sallie Mae to Offer Checking Accounts for Students with Financial Aid; Little-Known Colleges Exploit Visa Loopholes to Make Millions Off Foreign Students;
Former Marine Corps Leader to Head Financially Troubled Birmingham-Southern College;
U. Iowa defends Use Of Consultant For New Compensation System;
Georgia Private school funding draws ire while HOPE scholarships slashed;
College Merger Talk Arises in Md. and Resurfaces in Nevada; In Florida, ‘Organize Or Die’; Proposal: faculty in Ohio to teach one more course every two years;
Texas bill would protect questioners of evolution; Lawmakers in Texas want college for prison inmates be eliminated;
Experiment Tricking Graduate-Program Officials produces Fruitless Search for Political Bias;
Video satires on college life;
Students Web Access to Open Source Computation Tools;
College trademarks: Can You Own a Color?
Ousted Trustee Pledges $5-Million to U. of South Carolina;
The Costs Of College Athletics; 2 Alabama Community Colleges Drop Athletics;
New Book Examines Differences Between Universities With and Without Big-Time Sports;
3/18/11
TechNews for the week: March 18; March 16; March 14;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Bahrain cracks down on protests; Ruling Family split; Saudi forces raises the stakes; protesters assaulted;
Demos across Syria after foiled Damascus rally; US strongly condemns Syria violence; Yemen in state of emergency after protest massacre;
International bank branches, businesses remain closed amid Bahrain security crackdown;
U.N. approves 'all necessary measures' to protect Libya's civilians; Foreign minister says Libya is declaring a cease-fire; tries to outflank no-fly zone;
Libya's Gadhafi finds supporters in Latin America;
CIA contractor leaves Pakistani prison after 'blood money' deal; Pakistan intelligence officials say US missiles kill 38 militants near Afghan border;
Japan steps closer to a full-blown nuclear catastrophe; issues radiation warning after 3rd explosion;
Senate Republicans vow to block non-budget bills; oppose stopgap budget bills; Lobbyists flock to Capitol Hill jobs;
Wisconsin judge temporarily blocks implementation of law curtailing public worker union rights;
Health-care law fuels abortion wars;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web design issues
Other news
NCAA brackets;
Anonymous makes a laughing stock of HBGary; releases BofA employee correspondence;
A guest Post From Madison; Dirty little secrets of HR; The NPR video and political dirty tricks;
Finance and Economics
Jobs Data Show Older Workers Joining Workforce As Younger Workers Drop Out; Few Americans confident in retirement savings;
Rising gas prices hit businesses big and small; States Increase Sales-Tax Pressure on Amazon;
What's the story with economics? Do economists have a moral compass?
Education:
Study: Nearly a Third of College Students Have Had Mental-Health Counseling;
Net-Price Calculators; Correlation between education and earnings; Enrollment in Army ROTC Down in Past 2 School Years;
Evaluating New York Teachers, Perhaps the Numbers Do Lie; Law School Rankings;
Nevada Regents Reject Campus Closures; Bill in Arizona Would Give Millions in Tax Breaks to For-Profit Colleges;
SC Governor Removes Benefactor From USC Board; Tennessee Lawmaker Wants Student Protesters Punished;
Emerging Classroom Technologies to Watch; Professors say iPads Could Hinder Teaching; Does Google Apps for Education discriminate against the blind?
NCAA rules Arkansas State must forfeit wins; Is Latest NCAA Case to Reveal Academic Fraud;
Tressel asks for 5-game ban after NCAA upholds players’ suspensions;
Nebraska-Omaha to Move to Division I, Drop Football and Wrestling;
The Future of the Longhorn Network; UConn Drama Shows a Darker Side of Donor Relations;
Education secretary calls for NCAA to reform eligibility and revenue payouts for NCAA teams; Junior-College Athletes Sue NCAA Over Transfer Rules;
3/11/11
TechNews for the week: March 11; March 9; March 7;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Gaddafi forces repel Libyan opposition; loyalists escalate counterattack on rebel-held cities ; forces battle in eastern and western Libya;
Gadhafi controls the skies; U.S. to send aid team to eastern Libya; U.S. Agencies Help Mideast dissidents evade government censors;
Saudi Arabia bans protest rallies; seems quiet on planned 'Day of Rage'; Sectarian clashes in Egypt challenge revolutionary idealism;
In Afghanistan, U.S. shifts strategy on women's rights as it eyes wider priorities; Afghans say NATO troops kill Karzai's cousin in botched raid;
In brig, suspect in WikiLeaks case ordered to sleep without clothing; Liberals attack conservative Supreme Court justices;
Wisconsin Assembly approves bill to slash union rights for public workers; Wisconsin governor wins his battle with unions on collective bargaining;
Wis. Walker's privatization for Milwaukee County fails;
As US fiscal conservatives cut food programmes for poor children military aid for Israel is left untouched;
Rep King "protects America" by Puts Muslim Group in Hot Seat;
In states, parties clash over ID voting laws, limits on college students; New Hampshire moves to restrict student voting;
Chinese Citizens Use Microblogs to Fight Censors;
Tsunami waves hit Hawaii, sweep across islands; Hundreds killed;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web design issues
Other news
The Fading Power of Beck’s Alarms;
The 80-20 Principle;
Lawsuit tests use of private e-mail for public business;
Finance and Economics
Debit Card Fees Prompt a Push Near Deadline;
Stocks lift household wealth; companies amass cash;
State and local workers: Gone but not off the books;
Senate passes bill to overhaul patent system;
ICANN, Governments Disagree on New Domain Names;
Lenovo becomes the first major PC OEM to build and sell Classmate PCs;
Education:
Average Faculty Salaries by Field and Rank at 4-Year Colleges and Universities, 2010-11;
Research-Universities Group: Texas A&M’s Professor-Tracking Program ‘Ill-Conceived’;
Report: Declaring Financial Exigency Could Be a Positive Step for Colleges; Recession Pushed State and Local Higher-Ed Spending to 25-Year Low;
Ex-Central Arkansas President Abruptly Resigns Fla. University Post; Pleads Guilty to Felonies Stemming From Bonus Pay;
U. Nevada-Reno Proposes More Cuts in Degrees, Programs, and Jobs; UNLV Outlines Deep Cuts if Governor’s Budget Is Passed;
Nevada Regents to Consider Plan to Close Colleges;
Governor Proposes 50% Budget Cut for Pennsylvania Colleges; Could Force Closure of Penn State Campuses;
UC Riverside leaders consider sweeping cuts in face of budget crisis; Los Angeles CC District Fires Head of Construction Program;
Former Vice President of Finance at Iona College Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $850,000;
AAUP investigates Idaho State U. Over Faculty Senate Suspension; Anti-Faculty-Union Proposal in Ohio Came From Public-University Association;
BYU to establish Global Leadership Center; U. of Kentucky’s Technology Leadership Center Will Be Run From Iowa;
Federal Judge rules Ferpa Does Not Prohibit U. Illinois From Releasing Student Records;
Computer science programs use mobile apps to make coursework relevant;
Calipari, Izzo are top-paid men’s hoops coaches; Ohio State’s President Stirs Controversy by Downplaying NCAA Violations;
New Ranking Values Some NCAA Titles More Than Others ; 'Courses of Interest' for Athletes; The Wrong Approach on NCAA Rules;
NCAA Punishes Southern Methodist U. for Rule Breaking; U. of Notre Dame Bans Use of Lifts to Film Football Practices;
Appeals Court Affirms James Madison U.'s Elimination of 10 Sports Teams Was Legal;
3/4/11
TechNews for the week: March 4; March 2; February 28;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Libyan rebels push back assault by Gaddafi forces in port city of Brega; Oman clashes widen protest rumblings in Gulf; WikiLeaks: Coke caught in Gadhafi sons' dispute;
Protesters killed in Libya, Yemen as wave of Arab unrest continues; Outside Yemen's capital, anger and grievances run deep;
Huge crowds in Yemen as Saleh blames West for unrest; Yemeni parties join protesters to reject presidential offer ;
Tunisian prime minister announces resignation; Protesters say Maliki is using special security forces to shut down demonstrations in Iraq;
China clamps down Middle East-inspired protests before they can gain momentum;
Wisconsin Gov. Walker threatens to trigger layoffs for thousands of public workers; Dems shout 'shame' after union vote; Scott Walker's unprincipled rigidity;
Largest crowds since Vietnam War march in Wisconsin; Wisconsin voters express buyer’s remorse over Gov. Scott Walker;
Majority in Poll Back Employees in Public Sector Unions;
What happened when collective bargaining was eliminated in Indiana; Ohio bill would ban worker strikes, punish walkout;
GOP governors undermine Obama's agenda in states;
NY GOP rep pushes House hearing on radicalization of U.S. Muslims; Tenn. bill would make following Islamic code a felony;
Report: GOP spending plan would cost 700,000 jobs; Poll: Blame for possible government shutdown is divided;
House Republicans attempt to revive Real ID; Congress' priorities when troops need equipment;
Supreme Court rules for military funeral protesters;
CIA seize Reporter's phone, bank and travel records searching for whistleblowers;
Hacked e-mails show Web is an increasingly useful tool in dirty-tricks campaigns;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web design issues
Other news
Information Wars;
Corporate Hacker Tries to Take Down WikiLeaks; WikiLeaks, Net nominated for Nobel Peace Prize;
George Bush boycotts conference after hearing Julian Assange is also on the bill;
Wadah Khanfar at TED: A historic moment in the Arab world;
Survey of Americans' sexual behavior; Juicy Bits From the Sarah Palin Tell-All;
Midshipman say Synthetic marijuana widely used at Naval Academy;
Finance and Economics
Unemployment rate fell to 8.9 in Feb; GAO report: Government overlap costs taxpayers billions; Cutting Public Sector Wages Will Make Recession Worse;
Jefferson County, Ala. Battles Massive Debt Following Corruption; Will Wall Street excape prosecution?
Schwarzenegger: Time to change the energy debate;
South Carolina Colleges Put Expense Reports Online;
Education:
Gates Says US Must Identify "Great Teachers" And Copy Their Skills For Others; Bill Gates Promotes Professor’s Online Course at TED;
Students Are 'Buying Down' to Their 'Next Best' College Choices; Are American Kids Are Falling Behind?
More testing accommodations for students with disabilities; Should Students Actually Go to Class for a Specific Course?
Podcast: Publishers Views on the Future of Textbooks; Better ways to reach parents other than Facebook?
Louisiana Board Approves Rules to Ease Firing of Tenured Faculty; Offers to Cut 138 Programs;
States using Pension funds: But the Funds Were Just Sitting There! State Flexibility: But for (and From) Whom?;
Connecticut Governor Wants to Review Non-Faculty Hiring; Lawmakers Criticize Number of College Administrators;
Ohio Governor Appoints Former AG to Run University System; Ohio Senate Votes to Deny Collective-Bargaining Rights to Most Public-College Professors;
Wasted millions in Massive Community College Building Effort;
Midwest union battles highlight debate over improving schools; Senators Mull Changes in 90/10 Rule to Rein In For-Profits; For-Profits and Military Money;
Internet Cheating Scandal Shakes Japan Universities;
Army swaps sit-ups for combat run in new PT tests;
Football Coaches Defend the Practice of 'Oversigning'; Castleton State Football Coach Loses Job For Arranging Loan for Player;
Report: 7 Percent of Football Players at Top Programs Have Criminal Records;
Report: UConn out $1.8M for Fiesta trip; Ohio State earned nearly $290,000 from Sugar Bowl, lost nearly $80,000 from Rose Bowl;
Celebration of science and engineering: Big Bang Fair; My $1,500 Tablet;