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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Working with student social media influencers, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 days, 4 hours ago
When teenagers are looking for information about what it’s really like to go to a college, they rarely consult college brochures or university websites. Instead, they just turn to social media.
“I remember goi […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, A new kind of 'big deal' for Elsevier and Carnegie Mellon University, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Carnegie Mellon University and Elsevier Thursday announced a new agreement to radically change how the institution pays to read and publish research.
Instead of paying separately to access Elsevier’s catalog of p […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Virginia pledges $1 billion for computer science degree expansion, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 4 weeks, 1 day ago
The commonwealth of Virginia will produce an additional 31,000 technology graduates over the next 20 years, Governor Ralph Northam announced yesterday.
That goal is an expansion of the state’s originally stated l […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Changing the conversation about “at-risk” students in California, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month ago
A decades-long effort to change how educators talk about students facing economic or social challenges has been backed by California lawmakers.
A bill to remove references to “at-risk youth” and replace the ter […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, MIT framework for negotiating with scholarly publishers gains wide support, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 1 week ago
Who should own and control the dissemination of research? Not academic publishers, according to a new framework developed by library leaders at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The framework, published […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Exploring subscriptions to support open-access monographs, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 2 weeks ago
MIT Press published its first open-access book in 1995, but leaders of the university press are still trying to figure out the best way to make more scholarly books available to the public for free.
This problem […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Exploring subscriptions to support open-access monographs, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 2 weeks ago
MIT Press published its first open-access book in 1995, but leaders of the university press are still trying to figure out the best way to make more scholarly books available to the public for free.
This problem […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Why colleges are prioritizing privacy, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 2 weeks ago
CHICAGO — For attendees at the 2019 Educause conference this week, privacy was top of mind.
Scandals such as Cambridge Analytica, data breaches at ed-tech companies such as Chegg and an increasingly complex […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Bringing esports on campus, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 3 weeks ago
CHICAGO — Facilities for competitive online gaming are fast becoming a must-have on campus, attendees at the 2019 Educause conference learned yesterday.
In a session on the rise of esports in higher education, […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, New grant to encourage graduates of tech programs to consider public-sector careers, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Lots of computer science students dream of landing a lucrative job at Google or Facebook when they graduate, but a new grant program aims to shine a light on an alternative career path: the public sector.
A group […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, How marketing helped Southern New Hampshire University make it big online, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months ago
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Back when Southern New Hampshire University was still a small regional institution with a modest online presence, Paul LeBlanc, the university’s president, called a meeting with his online t […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, The expansion of chatbots in higher ed, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 3 months ago
More and more colleges are deploying virtual assistants or chatbots to communicate with students on all aspects of college life, creating a virtual “one-stop-shop” for student queries.
Colleges initially were […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Pursuing a new kind of “big deal” with publishers, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 3 months, 1 week ago
WASHINGTON — Making the transition from paying to read to paying to publish academic research won’t be easy for universities or publishers. But it is possible, attendees at an open-access-publishing event were t […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Two universities targeted by hackers just before new school year, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 3 months, 1 week ago
The start of the new academic year can be a challenging time on any college campus, but the start of the fall term at Regis University was unlike any other.
Students arrived at the private university in Denver to […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Virginia Tech outpaces George Mason in plans for Amazon's HQ2, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Virginia Tech and George Mason University both pledged to significantly expand their computer science programs following Amazon’s announcement last year that it would build a second headquarters in Arlington, V […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Legal questions raised over links to Sci-Hub, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 3 months, 3 weeks ago
There is little dispute that Sci-Hub, the website that provides free access to millions of proprietary academic papers, is illegal. Yet, despite being successfully sued twice by major American academic publishers […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, George Mason professor's op-ed raises ethical questions, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Stephen Fuller, professor of public policy and regional development at George Mason University in Virginia, is frequently quoted by The Washington Post as an expert on the economy of the Washington region. But […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Growing Texas Tech’s K-12 pipeline, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 4 months ago
Texas Tech University is in an enviable position — as college attendance is declining nationally and competition for students is intensifying, enrollment at the university is growing. It hit a record high in the […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Knight Foundation devotes $50 million to research democracy and tech, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 4 months, 2 weeks ago
The spread of misinformation, election interference and the growing prevalence and influence of social media companies have all been hot-button topics since the 2016 election. But how much is technology really […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Another gossip app hits college campuses. Will this one be better?, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Despite their relatively short shelf life, the development of campus-based social media platforms isn't slowing down. Pop, the latest social media app to target students, is hoping to become the next big thing […]
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