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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 1 day, 20 hours 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 4 days, 20 hours 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 1 week, 1 day 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 3 weeks, 3 days 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 3 weeks, 4 days 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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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Ellucian Banner security flaw highlighted by Education Department, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 4 weeks, 1 day ago
The U.S. Department of Education has warned of “active and ongoing exploitation” of a security flaw in Ellucian’s Banner system that may have given hackers access to student data such as grades, financial infor […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Hackers demand $2 million from Monroe College in ransomware attack, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month ago
A cyberattack disabled many of Monroe College’s technology systems and platforms last week. Students and faculty and staff members were locked out of the college’s website, learning management system and ema […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Arizona State tackling college completion with blockchain, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 1 week ago
Thousands of community college students transfer to Arizona State University every year, some before obtaining their associate’s degrees. While many will successfully graduate from Arizona State with a b […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Washtenaw Community College outsources its IT staff, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 1 week ago
For three days in June 2017, Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Mich., experienced a complete network shutdown.
The negative impact on the college was immediate. Students couldn't attend online classes […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, California bills targeting for-profits and bundled services exception advances, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 2 weeks ago
A package of seven interrelated bills proposing tighter regulation of for-profit and private colleges in California moved closer to becoming law this week — but not fully intact.
One of the bills, a proposal to […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, California bills targeting for-profits and bundled services exception advances, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 2 weeks ago
A package of seven interrelated bills proposing tighter regulation of for-profit and private colleges in California moved closer to becoming law this week — but not fully intact.
One of the bills, a proposal to […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, University of Iowa drops hundreds of journal subscriptions, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months, 1 week ago
At the University of Iowa Libraries, publisher price increases have become too much to bear.
The libraries announced late last year that they needed to trim $600,000 from their budget, calling on faculty members […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Nonprofit boot camp infiltrates college computer science curricula, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months, 1 week ago
It’s a common refrain among industry experts that computer science degrees don’t adequately prepare students to work in the technology industry. Computer science degrees are too theoretical and not applied eno […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Questions raised over the true burden of the 'big deal', on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months, 2 weeks ago
A growing number of U.S. institutions are not renewing their bundled journal subscriptions with big publishers, citing rising costs that have made these deals unsustainable.
Louisiana State University recently […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, LSU ends Elsevier bundled journal subscription, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Louisiana State University will terminate its “big deal” with publisher Elsevier at the end of this year, joining the growing list of U.S. institutions that have recently decided not to renew their bundled jou […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Rejecting the requirement to publish dissertations online, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Rob Schlesinger is not your typical college student. A lawyer who worked in higher education administration for more than 25 years, he decided to take time off from his day job two years ago to pursue a doctorate […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, An accessibility turnaround at Atlantic Cape Community College, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Atlantic Cape Community College administrators were shocked when the college was sued for discrimination under the Americans With Disabilities Act. They thought the college was doing a pretty good job providing […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, AI that summarizes research papers could have useful applications for academics, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 3 months ago
Summarizing the findings of a complex and technical research paper into plain English is no easy feat, but a recent development by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could change that.
Using […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, North Carolina press seeks sustainable open-access model for monographs, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The University of North Carolina Press is leading an experiment to significantly lower the cost of producing scholarly books — an important step toward a sustainable open-access publishing model for […]
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Lindsay McKenzie wrote a new post, Elsevier agrees to first read-and-publish deal, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 3 months, 3 weeks ago
In a move that could signal the beginning of a significant shift for its business model, publisher Elsevier has agreed to its first “read-and-publish” deal with a national consortium of universities and res […]
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