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Publishers Announce Agreements with Universities on New Copyright Guidelines for Course Content in Digital Formats New copyright guidelines state that educational content delivered to students in digital formats should be treated under the same copyright principles that apply to printed materials... Maine Law Students Enter Battle on Downloading, Against Record Labels Lisa Chmelecki and Hannah Ames, friends and third-year students at the University of Maine School of Law in Portland, had never studied copyright law before a few months ago, and were unfamiliar with a historic legal battle brewing on college campuses nationwide... Study Rethinks Online Video Copyright A new study found that many uses of copyrighted material in online video, including mash-ups and satire, are legal and could be endangered by new censorship practices...

A Growing College Rivalry: The Fight for Faculty Stars Some universities play down faculty member moves, calling them part of the recruitment process in higher education. Others refer to many of the raids on star faculty members by competing universities as poaching or outright theft... Smokers Want College to Ease Up on Restrictions Exiled to the school parking lot in the wake of new smoking restrictions at Joliet Junior College, student Brandon Harris and friends did what comes naturally to many college students with a beef... Swastikas Undermine University's Bid to Heal Bisharo Iman hoped college in St. Cloud would be different than attending high school there - no more taunts of "Go back to your country" aimed at her Somali dress, no more being slammed into lockers...

UI Offers Several New Classes Spring semester courses offer more variety and opportunites to members of student body... University Quenches Thirst for Knowledge with 'Beer 101' Students at a small Halifax university are toasting a unique course on campus that has been dubbed Beer 101... Did You Know? Microbrewing Science by Christopher L. Brown, PhD. is available now! Get more info! Gannett Eyes Collegian Takeover Student leaders, staff and faculty are crying foul after CSU President Larry Penley held a closed-door meeting to discuss a potential takeover of the student newspaper by the Fort Collins Coloradoan...

Study Abroad Scrutinized The state attorney general has asked 10 Connecticut schools, including Yale and the University of Connecticut, to turn over records tied to their study abroad programs to find out if the schools or administrators received subsidized trips, cash bonuses or other incentives to choose one study abroad provider over another... Border Fence Controversy Enters Courtroom The University of Texas at Brownsville, along with other landowners in the area, can expect to be sued by the federal government for refusing to allow their property to be surveyed for construction of a border fence...

Heftier Aid at Elite Colleges Draws Praise, Rebukes Decisions by Harvard, Yale and other elite schools to make college more affordable to a larger pool of applicants might have the unintended consequence of harming less wealthy institutions and the students who attend them, some educators and financial aid experts say... In Trend, Colby Will Offer More Financial Aid as Grants This liberal arts college is joining a select group of colleges extending the offer to qualified students no matter where they're from... U.S. Ignores Finding on Student Lender The Education Department has brushed aside a finding by its own inspector general that a student lender improperly received $34 million in federal subsidies, and is instructing the lender to decide for itself how much money it should pay back...

Management Decision Theory Managing Pragmatically Paperback, 200 pages - $45.95 Free desk copy and PowerPoint slides for adopting instructors! Howard Flomberg's Management Decision Theory discusses the two broad classifications of decision theory — Qualitative and Quantitative — without a preconceived notion of which category excels over the other. It presents a virtual toolbox that can be used to apply theory to real-life situations on the job. In The News: Check out Howard Flomberg's article in Metro. Click to read. The Human Body Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology - 2nd color edition Paperback, Full Color, 480 pages - $124.95 The Human Body is recommended for use in 1-semester courses at universities, colleges, vocational schools, and high schools. It is specially designed to help students learn by using the process of concept building. Learning becomes easier and lasts longer because of the mental connections that are forged. Did You Know? Images are also available for students to access online in digital format! The Scientific Approach to Hitting Research Explores the Most Difficult Skill in Sport Paperback, 280 pages - $34.95 - add a DVD for $20! In his new book, Dr. Coop DeRenne of the University of Hawaii – Manoa carefully analyzes the core components of a swing from a scientific standpoint. His research, in conjunction with BioKinetics Inc., has deciphered the intricacies of the ideal swing. This is a great book for coaches and athletes who want to improve hitting skills. In the News: Read Coop DeRenne's recent article in Collegiate Baseball. Click to read. Evaluating Accountability and Transparency in Mexico National, Local, and Comparative Perspectives Paperback, 220 pages - $25.00 Understudied justice-reform issues within the Mexican bureaucracy are the focus of the Justice in Mexico Project of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego (director David A. Shirk). In its first monograph, five distinguished contributors from Mexico and the United States address problems related to the responsibility and answerability of the state and its representatives to their constituencies.
New Online General Biology Course Are you looking for a way to teach more students with fewer resources? That was the dilemma facing Dr. Robert Pozos, who teaches multiple large sections of the non-major introductory biology course every semester at San Diego State University. For the past five years, he's been developing an online solution that combines modular, web-based reading materials and interactive student evaluations (quizzes and exams) with flexible course management tools. Dr. Pozos has a distinguished background in biomedical research as well as teaching. He has thoroughly tested his course, BioEspresso: General Biology, with over 5,000 students to date and dozens of teaching assistants and is now ready to offer it for use to other professors. Students pay $79.95 each for access to BioEspresso: General Biology. You can offer it to your students — for Fall 2008 only — for a special introductory per-student price of $64.95. That includes student access to all the modules, some superb images, dynamically generated quiz and exam items written by the author, and a message and grade-tracking system. Adopting BioEspresso: General Biology for your course gives you access to tools for customizing the content and the course design and for tracking and motivating students. BioEspresso doesn't just digitize content, as so many other new biology products do. It is designed also to: • Help you customize the content and keep track of student progress • Save you time and effort while enriching the student experience • Get students to take responsibility for their own learning • Keep the price to students significantly lower than the cost of a standard textbook For more information, please contact Becky Smith, Managing Editor, at 800.200.3908 ext. 18 or bsmith@universityreaders.com.
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