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Why is the war on cancer lasting a lifetime?

It's now 38 years after war was declared on cancer in 1971.  University reseachers and their medical affiliates have been visible at the front.   Here's information from the trenches as well as insight...

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Medical Research Roundup October 6, 2009

October 6, 2009.  Medical-related research is bustling on U.S. campuses.  The subject matter may sometimes upset the squeamish.  But the potential benefits of reduced suffering and longer life are...

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Today's Campus Update - October 15, 2009

October 15, 2009.  Editors' choice articles.  Readers' choice interviews.  What readers are saying. Risky Business.  Upcoming conferences.  Where Today's Campus staff will be attending. 

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Research Roundup October 20, 2009

October 20, 2009.  Why?  Why do entrepreneurial hotspots form?  Greater intelligence doesn't equal better teamwork—with whom, why not?  Why are bitemarks unreliable as perpetrator identification?...

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Today's Campus Update, November 4, 2009

November 4, 2009.   Choice bits from recent online editions.  Readers' choice articles.  Editors' choice interviews.  Four popular roundups.    With a peek at the next magazine. 

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Today's Campus Update November 16, 2009

Since August 1st we've welcomed 101,000 visitors who have viewed more than 330,000 pages on this site.  Here are some choice morsels from recent online editions. Readers' choices.  Editors' choices,...

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Medical Research November 19. 2009

November 19, 2009.  Three more activities on U.S. campuses that could forecast medical breakthroughs.  Cancer-proofing cells. Vaccines that prevent nicotine and drug addictions. Zebrafish re-grow lost...

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Today's Campus Update, December 1, 2009

Readers' recent top interview choices and perennial favorites.  New features.  What's a RoundUp?  Campus photos. Conference notes.

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Gingrich Library at Albright College in Reading, PA

Gingrich Library at Albright College in Reading, PA

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TC Update

January 5, 2010. Interesting reading from 2009.  Readers' favorites and editors' suggestions.  Campus Photos, Crime on Campus, and more.

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Today's Campus Update January 18, 2010

The most popular online articles with readers this month.  A don't-miss online suggestion from our editors.  Previews of our next magazine.  And more. 

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Research Roundup January 19, 2010

January 19, 2010  College and university campuses abound with promising medical research. In this Roundup are  activities promising breakthroughs for stroke victims, spinal cord injuries, Alzheimers...

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Today's Campus Update-February 1, 2010

Retention Week begins Feb. 1.  Read new articles and interviews on the topic on this site every day.  Inside this update: January reader favorites. Highlights of the next magazine.  And more. 

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Research Roundup, February 9, 2010

February 9, 2010  Research efforts worth noting on U.S. campuses.  Breakthrough in faster, more secure wireless communications at Penn State.  Spiderman is likely beetle-enabled.  Faults and earthquake...

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Today's Campus Update February 18, 2010

February 18, 2010.  Is Uncle Sam the Lender derailed on Capitol Hill?  Retention Week reprise, if you missed it.  Reader's favorite Q&As since August.  Are next year's college applicants shopping...

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Today's Campus Update. March 22, 2010

Art Week begins March 22nd and continues all week.  Read new articles and interviews on the topic every day.  Inside this update: Recent Online Reader Favorites.  Consumer marketeers you may want to...

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Research Roundup

March 29, 2010.  Research in service to marketing and sustainability.  Also, the world's 12 hottest researchers.   

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How TMI affects decision making

Research Worth Noting with Karen West    A handy fact from a study about the decisions people make and the way they make them.

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Today's Campus Update. April 16, 2010

Tuition sweet spot.  Recent Online Reader Favorites.  Excerpts from a survey of the U.S. college-buying public.  Student loan Intelligence.   Campus jobs: Who?  Where?

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Which came first, the Fulbright or the egg?

  New + Notable by Tom Robinson.   Why do two campuses, one in California and one in Florida, have more Fulbright scholars per capita than Harvard?     

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So Sue Me

Institutions and individuals duel over intellectual property in an environment reminiscent of Jack London's Klondike. By Jim Castagnera

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Intellectual Property Produces Smart Money

Some campuses on the Forbes list of research revenue producers were one-hit wonders, due to the invention of a super drug.  Others earned their money with a series of smaller successes.   By Tom Robinson

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YouTube: The top ten uses cited by experienced users

While YouTube has emerged as a marketing juggernaut for colleges and universities, many campuses are also discovering that the free video-sharing service has scores of other uses—all of which are also...

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The Semantic Web: Your Web’s Smarter Younger Brother

New + Notable by Tom Robinson   The Semantic Web is also known as Web 3.0 and the Data Web and the Deep Web.  It's not artificial intelligence.   This new iteration of web is, however, “smarter” in...

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Today's Campus Update. June 2010

Tuition sweet spot.  Most popular recent articles.  Key buying signals sent by college-shopping parents.  Most popular recent interviews.  Higher education's news favorite for busy people.   And more.

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Today's Campus Update. July 2010

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Generational differences: myth or reality?

New + Notable by Tom Robinson   Generations X and Y, Boomers, Millennials, the Tech Generation and The Me Generation are part of our lexicon and our marketing strategies.  Should they be?  

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Today's Campus Update

Features ... A rookie college ranking debuts.  Will it challenge U.S. News?  Must big fundraising efforts result in little payoff?  Can college be more affordable?  What's happened to online higher...

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Today's Campus Update

A perfect storm of power politics and media noise has worked its way into higher education by way of the 'for-profit sector.'   At the heart of it all is student loans.  Most likely a business solution...

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TODAY'S CAMPUS HOSTS LIVE WEBCAST EVENT "GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT IMPLICATIONS" -...

YOU'RE INVITED! Join Today's Campus and a panel of higher education luminaries to discuss the topic of gainful employment.

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Recording of Today's Campus Webcast "Implications of Gainful Employment"...

Watch the recording of a luminary panel of higher education thought leaders from the August 12, 2011 Today's Campus Webcast "Implications of Gainful Employment".

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Video Interview - Jen Howard, Director of Google Education

Who better to speak with than Google for information about how prospective students evaluate prospective colleges and universities on the web? After all, Google is at the top of the search engine world...

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Recording Available of Today's Campus Live Web Event - The Real Impact of...

Get your link to watch the recording of Today's Campus publisher and panel as they discuss exclusive, never before seen data!

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Q&A with Jeff Wendt: Do Not Click, , Do Not Click

Phil Ice is the Vice President of Research and Development for American Public University System. We spoke for a few minutes about the Gates Foundation grant on predictive analytics for which he is the...

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Disruptive Innovation, Online Learning and Autonomy

Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation includes as one of its tenets that it is rare for leaders in an industry to maintain their dominant position once a disruptive innovation has run...

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Ryan Busch Interviews Jessica Bothwell Kay and Ross Abramson from...

Think globally is something we should all consider as we develop learning content. Transperfect and Translations.com provide the resources to truly think globally about the language implications of...

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Q&A with Jeff Wendt: Do Not Click, , Do Not Click

Lou Pugliese and I spoke at EDUCAUSE 2011 and our conversation left me with the sense that his company functions more like a partner than an overbearing LMS heavy weight. Moodlerooms is definitely an...

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Ryan Busch Interviews Nivine Megahed and Joselyn Zivin from National Louis...

According to Nivine Megahed, National Louis University (NLU) has a history of innovation. Even so, in September NLU became the first university to use the social coupon service Groupon as an enrollment...

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Q&A with Jeff Wendt: Do Not Click, , Do Not Click

We continue to discover a whole host of opportunities related to "the cloud". DuraSpace's DuraCloud service represents perhaps one of the most valuable innovations I've heard to date--particularly if...

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Solving the Student Debt Problem

Two-thirds of all students now borrow and the average amount borrowed spiked 5 percent in the last year alone, to approximately $25,000, while one in 10 students borrow in excess of $40,000. Meanwhile,...

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Ryan Busch Interviews Joshua Sine, Director of New Student Services and...

Enrollment and admissions are in the cloud. No, seriously. I interviewed Joshua Sine about the work he's done at Dixie State College of Utah to improve efficiency in the process of working with new and...

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Keith Hampson Interviews Josh Keller on Interactive Graphics for Higher...

Josh, I’ve long been a fan of your information graphics that you’ve produced for the Chronicle. What do you see as the value and purpose for creating these kinds of materials for its readers?

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Q&A with Jeff Wendt: Do Not Click, , Do Not Click

LeadiD had a unique vision to allow Lead Buyers (Schools, Agencies, and Aggregators) and Lead Sellers (Organic Lead Providers, Call Centers and Aggregators) to operate in a trusted environment. The...

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Q&A with Jeff Wendt: Do Not Click, , Do Not Click

Does he really need an introduction? What’s a visit to Vegas without the King himself—Elvis! Elvis stopped by at APSCU 2012 to say hello, and even serenade us! We thank Elvis for stepping in front of...

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Q&A with Jeff Wendt: Jami Morshed, , Three Rivers Systems

At APSCU 2012, we were excited to have the opportunity to speak with Jami Morshed, Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at Three Rivers Systems, touted as “The only truly disruptive academic...

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Q&A with Jeff Wendt: Do Not Click, , Do Not Click

We recently had the opportunity to speak with Trace Urdan with Wells Fargo Securities. As Trace sat down with us in Las Vegas, he discussed current events with us, including the government’s regulatory...

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Q&A with Jeff Wendt: Do Not Click, , Do Not Click

We had the opportunity to speak with Matt Pittinsky, CEO of Parchment, and the co-founder and former CEO of Blackboard.  Motivated by education and lifelong learning, Pittinsky joined Parchment, a...

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Q&A with Jeff Wendt: Do Not Click, , Do Not Click

At APSCU 2012, we had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Burton, Vice President of Academic Services at Courseload. Focused on digitizing academic content, Courseload aims to progress the higher...

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Q&A with Jeff Wendt: Do Not Click, , Do Not Click

At APSCU 2012, we had the opportunity to speak with Jeff Marcus, founder of Ed-Impact Consulting. While Ed-Impact is a relatively new consulting operation, Jeff has been working in the field for 20...

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Why Attitude is More Important Than Aptitude When Hiring a Student Researcher

When it comes to hiring a student researcher, an apprentice for your work, attitude can often be more important than aptitude. It matters less what your employees can do or what qualifications they...

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