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A Cameroonian Sets Up a Group for Foreign Students From Everywhere

chronicle.com — When Danilo Tchoupe arrived to study in the United States from Cameroon five years ago, no one showed up to greet him at the airport. Alone in a strange country, on New Year's Eve, he eventually had to find his own way to the Kansas community college where he was to enroll, more than an hour's drive away.

Financial Troubles Lead NYU to End Law Program in Singapore

chronicle.com — New York University's law school has announced that it will shut down a legal-education program it had introduced in partnership with the National University of Singapore, saying that the program will end when its class of 2014 graduates.

What Is Your System for Documenting Work?

chronicle.com — Over the last few years, we've spilled a fair amount of digital ink on the importance of keeping good records. We've talked about what to keep, since good documentation is important whether you're writing an annual review or going through the " tenure box " in preparation for a bid for tenure and/or promotion.
How do you document your work? @ProfHacker investigates. A good subject for non-academics to think about too. chronicle.com/blogs/profhack…

'Dreamers' Could Receive Federal Student Loans Under Immigration Bill

chronicle.com — An amendment passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday added language to a pending immigration bill that would extend federal student loans, work-study funds, and other federal support to students who are in the United States illegally. Sen. Mazie K.

Academic metamorphosis

chronicle.com — Academic metamorphosis
Haven't existentialist cliches about agency been debunked by now (re academe)? As if we can escape history: chronicle.com/forums/index.p…

How a Little Data Can Solve One of Higher Education's Biggest Problems

chronicle.com — Michael Morgenstern for The Chronicle Last fall, Shaun Fowler started his sophomore year at Georgia State University still owing $500 on his tuition bill. The finance major from Atlanta had only a few days of classes before the university would be forced to kick him out for nonpayment.
How a Little Data Can Solve One of Higher Education's Biggest Problems shar.es/ZktaP via @chronicle
RT @chronicle It doesn't take millions of $ to improve grad rates: one university did it with tiny, targeted grants. chroni.cl/10IVg2G
You don't need millions of $ to solve #highered's biggest problems. How @GeorgiaStateU used data 4 financial aid: chroni.cl/10IVg2G

New York City Embraces a College's New 'Handicapped' Symbol

chronicle.com — With the Gordon College campus as his test lab, Brian Glenney, a philosopher, helped develop the new, more active image.
RT @ScottBix: New York City is embracing a handicapped symbol that shows people with disabilities in more active poses http://t.co/RFGeegO9…
New York adopts handicap logo designed to look more active. (via @kathrynschulz): bit.ly/10fOu1q This is great.
New York City is embracing a handicapped symbol that shows people with disabilities in more active poses bit.ly/10fOu1q
RT @kathrynschulz: Group redesigns handicap icon to look more active, New York City agrees to use it: bit.ly/10fOu1q A lovely littl…
New York will use a redesigned "handicapped" logo which is more active. p-bu.mp/quv via @colossal
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chronicle.com — Once confined to the murky shadows of the sexual underworld, sadomasochism and its recreational correlate, bondage and domination, have emerged into startling visibility and mainstream acceptance in books, movies, and merchandising. Two years ago, E.L.
"What is to be done about the low scholarly standards in the analysis of sex?" Camille Paglia on bondage scholarship. chronicle.com/article/Schola…
"What is to be done about the low scholarly standards in the analysis of sex?" shar.es/ZlOXz via @chronicle
RT @aldaily: Kink has gone mainstream. But don’t ask theory-addled scholars of gender for insight, says Camille Paglia... http://t.co/h9afr…
Camille Paglia smack down of post modernism. PoMo: "Late capitalism itself produces the transgressiveness of sex." chronicle.com/article/Schola…
Amusing rant by Camille Paglia about three recent scholarly books on kink: chronicle.com/article/Schola…