Lead research anthropologist for the Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries Andrew Ascher found that students are highly unskilled in performing searches.

“Student overuse of simple search leads to problems of having too much information or not enough information … both stemming from a lack of sufficient conceptual understanding of how ( Read more... )

The National Research Council just released a 5-year, $4 million research effort to rank graduate programs in the U.S. - but no one seems happy with it. Here's the story on the controversy from Inside Higher Ed, including a link to the study and a downloadable database of its information. You might be interested in what kind of criteria they use.

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According to Inside Higher Ed's, January 11, 2010 article, Champlain College is opening a new press, to be run by the students. It's going to use technological bells and whistles such as podcasts and Facebook fan pages, but it's aim is to give writing students practical experience in publishing.

Although I doubt the project creator, Tim Brookes, ( Read more... )

 New scientific study of the trend towards more faculty who view their primary job as research.

Some interesting attempts at conclusions from the research. From Inside Higher Ed.

Inside Higher Ed's article "The Information Super-Library" (http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/11/books)looks at an online Great Books program at Monterey Peninsula Community College, which got its start due to student enthusiasm ( Read more... )

 Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed reports that Wisconsin Lutheran College is eliminating political science as a major due to budgetary constraints. Wisconsin Lutheran has been ranked a top liberal arts college by U.S. News & World Reports for six years.

A spokeswoman says: "the college determined it wasn't necessary to its liberal arts mission to ( Read more... )