Kevin Kiley of Inside Higher Ed takes off on a blog post by Northeastern University dean (of the Metropolitan College) Jay A. Halfond that we shared a couple of days ago at the website of the New England Board of Higher Education about the decline of regional branch campuses. It's a good read through the growth and decline cycle and into the new growth trend of branch campuses in remote places.
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Deadline to register with best savings is today, Monday, May 13! This word cloud was created from the content of the last 2,177 SCUP national and regional conference sessions. Plan for more great learning and networking at SCUP's 48th annual conference in San Diego, July 27–31, "Cultivate Integration." 
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Next Monday (May 13) is the early-bird registration deadline! Register today: http://scupannualconference.org/page/reganddeadlines
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The Call for the 2013 Perry Chapman Prize is live through May only. Respondents are asked to address the question: How does the physical campus support institu… Delete the scoop?
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You may have heard that the highest-paid employee in each state is usually the football coach at the largest state school. This is actually a gross mischaracterization: Sometimes it is the basketball coach.
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But, somehow in all the virality of this coah versus president interest peak, no one seems to have noticed that one thing they ALL have in common, in every state, is that they are paid by a university. Delete the scoop?
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When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street bankers. But Robert B. Reich, one of our most experienced and trusted voices on public policy, suggests another reason for the meltdown.
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Reich keynotes SCUP–48 later this summer. 
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May 16, 8:08 AM
Find all Finance businesses in Los Angeles, CA, California with their business address, contact and other information. Delete the scoop?
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Lots of hard work went into planning this event. Join 1,500+ professionals in San Diego, July 27–31, at the Society for College and University Planning's 48th annual conference, "Cultivate Integration." Delete the scoop?
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On average, the benefits of a college degree outweigh their costs.
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There is enormous variation in the so-called return to education depending on factors such as institution attended, field of study, whether a student graduates, and post-graduation occupation. While the average return to obtaining a college degree is clearly positive, we emphasize that it is not universally so. For certain schools, majors, occupations, and individuals, college may not be a smart investment. By telling all young people that they should go to college no matter what, we are actually doing some of them a disservice. 
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May 9, 11:34 PM
Woa, dog. Better analyze this one if you have kids of college age!
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May 9, 11:59 PM
I think we tell ALL young people this is the route. Nobody I know tells all kids this is not the route. Most tell them this IS the panacea.
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Assuming this— In an era when all the growth in higher education seems to be online, long-term planners must balance demographic projections and other trends…
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May 8, 6:07 AM
well written and good thinking, keep it up. visit http://www.unn.edu.ng for interesting articles.
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Women have come a long way in the arts, but there’s still a long way to go.
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“There’s a million ways to be a woman. There’s a million ways to be a mother. And there’s a million ways to be an architect.” But is there only one way to be a successful, prize-winning, women architect? Delete the scoop?
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MOOCs are being used by many institutions to avoid actually having to discuss issues like ownership of curriculum, scalability and strategic online growth. Delete the scoop?
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For a small group of the young, digital elite, Enstitute seeks to challenge the conventional wisdom that top professional jobs always require a bachelor’s degree.
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“They are not debating Chaucer; they are debating product features,” says Mr. Sarhan, who graduated from Pace University. “But it’s the same idea of how do I write down and communicate an argument.” Delete the scoop?
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The Question: "How does the physical campus support institutional missions of learning and engagement?" The 2013 Perry Chapman Prize call for submissions will be open through May 31. Proposals are expected to address the question: "How does the physical campus support institutional missions of learning and engagement?" A research prize will be awarded to the winning proposal. More information can be found at www.scup.org/perrychapman.
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This has a very short application window, basically the month of May, so pay attention at once if you are interested. Ten thousand dollars a year could come in handy for the right project. 
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May 6, 5:36 AM
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All this has normally cautious AI researchers hopeful that intelligent machines may finally escape the pages of science fiction. Indeed, machine intelligence is starting to transform everything from communications and computing to medicine, manufacturing, and transportation. The possibilities are apparent in IBM’s Jeopardy!-winning Watson computer, which uses some deep-learning techniques and is now being trained to help doctors make better decisions. Microsoft has deployed deep learning in its Windows Phone and Bing voice search.
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Good survey of the current landscape. Includes a concise history of AI research going back to even before Turing. Delete the scoop?
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"Connecting Your Institution’s Achievements to Demonstrate a Culture of Compliance," by Susan Paraska, director of institutional effectiveness at Kennesaw State University, presents a method for integrating strategic plan implementation and the planning requirements of the accreditation cycle using project management tools. This Planning for Higher Education article can be downloaded from this page only through Thursday, May 23, 2013. Delete the scoop?
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USDOJ: Departments of Justice and Education Reach Settlement to Address and Prevent Sexual Assault and Harassment of Students at the University of Montana in Missoula Delete the scoop?
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The college has met its goal in the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment and declared itself climate neutral. That means—essentially, with some caveats—that the college has zero greenhouse-gas emissions. After signing the climate commitment, Colby set a goal of reaching climate neutrality by 2015—a date far sooner than most other institutions that had signed. Only three other colleges have achieved climate neutrality under the commitment: the College of the Atlantic, Green Mountain College, and the University of Minnesota at Morris. (However, the College of the Atlantic may no longer be climate neutral—more on that below.)
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Thousands of images from the University Communication and Marketing department, working to tell the stories of the students, staff, and faculty who make The University of Iowa an extraordinary place.
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State of the art. Be prepared to lose yourself. Delete the scoop?
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There's a debate across the country over how well universities are preparing graduates for the real world, and whether colleges should operate more like businesses. That debate is particularly heated in Texas, where Gov.
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UT and A&M are absolutely on the frontline here. You know, for the reformers we've got to transform universities into profit-motivated corporations. And on the other side is the faculty, the university administration, the alumni association, and many powerful players in the state legislature. And this is important because even though the state legislature is Republican, there's a lot of loyalty to UT there. So it's a battle of the titans. Delete the scoop?
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There's a debate across the country over how well universities are preparing graduates for the real world, and whether colleges should operate more like businesses. That debate is particularly heated in Texas, where Gov. Delete the scoop?
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A conversation with Judith Eaton, president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). Delete the scoop?
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College of Saint Mary supports the concept of a Federal College Scorecard in order to provide transparency and comparative information to prospective students and their parents. While theFederal College Scorecard attempts to address these issues, there are limitations in that only students who are attending college for the first time are reflected in some of this data. College of Saint Mary, like many other colleges and universities across the nation, serves a large number of transfer and non-traditional students, who are very successful and yet are not reflected in the Federal College Scorecard. In addition, much of the data on the Federal College Scorecard does not explicitly state the time period over which the data was collected.
College of Saint Mary has thus assembled our own CSM College Scorecard, which clearly addresses both of these limitations. We believe that the CSM College Scorecard is a more accurate reflection of the students College of Saint Mary serves. Delete the scoop?
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Robert B. Reich is an American political economist, professor, author, and political commentator, and has served in three national administrations, most recently as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. Reich will address three key drivers of change in the economy that make higher education more important than ever—not just for individuals who will need a degree to an adequate income—but for our economy and society. Those drivers are (1) globalization, (2) technology, and (3) demographics.
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Reich will speark on Sunday, July 28, 2013, 5:30 PM–6:45 PM in San Diego at the forth-eight annual conrerence of the Society for College and University Planning. 
Israel Herrera's comment,
May 8, 6:25 PM
La Educación es un derecho y no debe ser vista como un negocio, una sociedad altamente civilizada tratará como prioridad siempre la supervivencia de la especie humana
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Sen. Ray Holmberg (R-Grand Forks) said more than a third of the total is one-time funding, mostly for new buildings and the budget for ongoing expenses is up 12 percent.
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“This is OK for students,” he said of the budget. “We can live with this.” More than $154 million was allocated for buildings, including a new medical school at the University of North Dakota and more than $13 million combined for Williston State College’s campus drive project ($1.7 million) and Stevens Hall project ($11.63 million). Delete the scoop?
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The Call for the 2013 Perry Chapman Prize is live through May only. Respondents are asked to address the question:
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SCUP will soon publish the monograph, "Research on Learning Space Design: Present State, Future Directions," by Susan Painter, Janice Fournier, Caryn Grape, Phyllis Grummon, Jill Morelli, Susan Whitmer, and Joseph Cevetello. This team received the 2012 Perry Chapman Prize to support their work. From the introduction to the report from the 2012 recipients: "Although several hundred articles and a number of books on these topics had been written by the fall of 2012, the field is still at an early stage of development. A first step in creating value from this existing body of work is to gather, summarize, and evaluate how far the field has come in identifying the elements that will allow us to thoughtfully design learning spaces and evaluate their impact. This was the purpose of the project being reported here: a literature review undertaken by a small group of researchers and campus architects/planners who had applied for and been awarded a small grant from the Perry Chapman estate, administered through the Sasaki Foundation in honor of M. Perry Chapman and administered by the Society for College and University Planning." 
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May 7, 2:41 AM
Library spaces - "The researchers used mapping exercises, student-gathered photographs, surveys, interviews, and design charrettes. Their findings paint a detailed picture of students’ study lives that has implications for institutions that want to make the library relevant to those lives: Students are highly scheduled and on the go all of the time. There is no “average” day for a student. Academic, social, recreational, work, volunteer, and personal activities are all in the mix and each day is different. They eat on the go and carry their belongings with them, although they don’t carry their laptops. Students’ schedules are “offset” from librarians’ schedules. Students study in the library, at home/in their dorms, and in the computer lab. They use computer technology throughout the day and in multiple locations.The researchers also reported results from the design charrettes that show student needs and preferences: Flexibility: spaces that meet a variety of needs. Students want to move easily among the spaces. Group and individual study areas are important, as are spaces to relax, a café, and computing and media viewing areas. Comfort: spaces that provide comfort and have a “family room” atmosphere. This includes easy access to coffee and food, natural light, and an environment with soothing textures, sounds, and great warmth. The space should support sitting, slouching, putting one’s feet up, and lying down. Technology: technology and tools should be intuitively integrated into the space. This includes high-end technology such as media players, smart boards, and plasma screens as well as low-tech items such as power outlets, staplers, and three-hole punch tools.Staff support: Students rarely made distinctions between the types of staff they needed in the library; rather, they expected to interact with a generic staff member who would be able to provide reference assistance, check out materials, answer IT questions, and brew a great latte. There were very few mentions of a reference or information desk. Librarians cannot assume that they know how students do their academic work or what they need.Resources: students included library materials in their designs, ranging from academic and reference books to leisure magazines and DVDs. " Ackn. SCUPDelete the scoop?
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"Indeed, the overarching theme of this new age is that within higher education, a profound shift in power is occurring. At the extremes, faculty and institutions have only two choices: innovate or resist." Delete the scoop?
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The City College of San Francisco, which is under pressure from its accreditor to streamline its governance structure and make other changes, has reached a key labor agreement that is expected to save the institution $1.6-million a year, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The agreement with the Department Chair Council, an unusual bargaining unit for faculty leaders, reduces the number of department chairs to 39 from 61, requires the chairs to work on the campus five days a week, and trims total stipends by $170,000. John Rizzo, chairman of the college’s Board of Trustees, said the pact was “very important” and will show the accreditor “that we can make labor agreements, that we’re functional.” Delete the scoop?
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