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• University of Phoenix Forms National Research Center and Names Advisory Board Charter Members

  - 2008-05-05

  PHOENIX -- University of Phoenix today announced the formation of a research unit, the University of Phoenix National Research Center NRC, to drive continued significant and innovative research initiatives in teaching and learning among adult students in higher education. The NRC will be directed by scholar Jorge Klor de Alva,...

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• Clay Jenkinson To Appear As Thomas Jefferson For Special UND 125th Anniversary Presentation Friday, March 14.

  - 2008-02-29

  M2 PRESSWIRE-29 February 2008-University Of North Dakota: Clay Jenkinson To Appear As Thomas Jefferson For Special UND 125th Anniversary Presentation Friday, March 14C1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:28022008 Clay Jenkinson, a cultural commentator, humanities scholar and author, will be on campus...

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• University of Virginia Blanketed With Red Flags to Warn Students of the Dangers of Dating Violence

  - 2007-10-10

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• DESEGREGATION PLANS STRUCK DOWN

  - 2007-09-01

  The U.S. Supreme Court in June struck down, 5-4, two K-12 school desegregation plans that assigned children to schools based on race. The case did not directly involve higher education, but briefs filed in the case, including an amicus brief filed by the AAUP, referred to Grutter v. Bollinger, the...

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• Institutional Culture and Civic Responsibility: An Ethnographic Study

  - 2006-01-01

  Student citizenship development is an important goal of higher education that is rarely considered through a cultural lens. This ethnographic study of a research university is an examination of campus ideologies and cultural forms that address five dimensions of civic responsibility. The findings illustrate how the beliefs and cultural equipment...

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• Student rights associated with disciplinary and academic hearings and sanctions

  - 2005-03-01

  This paper examines whether students have due process rights associated with disciplinary and academic hearings. Constitutional challenges, case law, and the requirements of due process are discussed. Suggestions are made for procedures a school should follow to fulfill the requirements of due process. ********** An important legal issue...

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• Recent dissertations.

  - 2005-01-01

  Abeita, Lynn Ann. "American Indian Compliance with Health Screening Behaviors." PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2004. Aguilera, Dorothy E. "Who Defines Success: An Analysis of Competing Models of Education for American Indian and Alaskan Native Students." PhD diss., University of Colorado, 2003. ...

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• The Dallas Morning News Education Career Column.

  - 2002-10-13

  By Ginny Dudek, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 13--KIM KAMEN Frisco's Future/ Frisco's Family Resource Center Age: 30 Position: Executive director Years in current position: 1 1/2 ...

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• "The urgency of engineering education reform"

  - 2002-07-01

  Excerpts from the LITEE* 2002 Distinguished Lecture, Auburn University, AL March 22, 2002 Let me start by saying a little bit about the academies of engineering. I have come to understand that people have some strange ideas about the academies, so let me try to straighten them out. What is...

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• Mr. Jefferson's university breaks up

  - 2002-06-22

  THE University of Virginia is surely the most architecturally renowned campus in the country. Among Virginians, it is reverentially referred to as "Mr. Jefferson's university," and indeed that polymath president had a major hand in designing what he called the "academical village." A miniature version of the Roman Pantheon, the...

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